XrmToolCast

Daryl and Scott interview Matt Beard, fellow MVP and a data nerd, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse Format Changer.

Other topics:

• Beards and Mr. Beard
• Matt reacts to the worst schema names
• What use case is the JSON format?
• Dataverse for Teams leads the way
• Data Validation Tool
• Connector Gallery
• Exclusive announcement of London user group meeting
• Data8 Ltd, the data quality company
• Matt's Dad Joke

Matt's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbeard7
• @mattybeard
• https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/DataverseFormatChanger
• https://mbeard.co.uk/2021/09/13/introducing-dataverse-format-changer-in-xrmtoolbox
• https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/dataverse-format-changer.html

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Daryl and Scott hang out with Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and have a fireside chat without talking about any technical topic or tools and stuff.

Some of the highlights:

• Jonas has started doing some coding
• Trying to remember that dang shortcut, having to resort to the menus
• Remembering his tool names?
• Jonas will be speaking at the South Coast Summit
• Encouraging everyone to share their story

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Daryl and Scott interview Danish Naglekar, fellow MVP and a previous guest, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse DevTools for VsCode.

Other topics:

• Building VsCode Extensions
• The PCF Builder
• Bearer Tokens

Danish's Info and other links:

• https://twitter.com/@DanzMaverick

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar

• https://github.com/Danz-maveRICK/PCF-CustomControlBuilder

• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=danish-naglekar.dataverse-devtools

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow// | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Daryl and Scott interview Daniel Cai, founder of KingswaySoft and a former MVP. We talk through the history of the KingswaySoft SSIS adapter as well as some of the improvements made along the way. Other topics:

• Scott hates mosquitos almost as much as Daryl hates rope swings
• Free shirts are the best shirts
• Daniel's trigger statements
  • SOAP vs WebApi
  • Tables vs Entities

Daniel's Info and other links:

• Company: KingswaySoft
• LinkedIn: DanielCai
• Twitter: @DanielCai

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

With Scott being on vacation Mike Ochs was nice enough to fill in the co-host seat as we dive into the Albanian Early Bound Tool for the XrmToolBox with Betim Beja. Betim is a developer based in Albanian, who talks about his tools as well as his home country.

Betim's Info and other links:

• Blog: https://xrm.al/
• LinkedIn: BetimBeja
• Twitter: @betimbeja
• GitHub: Albanian-xrm

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsochs/ | @MikeFactorial Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

We've challenged David Rivard in episode 41 to create a tool for Managing Custom APIs . Not only did he accept that challenge and created the Dataverse Custom API Manager, he has also extended it to create another one, the Dataverse Catalog Manager, both of which we dive into on this show.

David's Info and other links:

• Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/
• LinkedIn: davidrivard
• Twitter: @david_rivard

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode we talk with Megan V. Walker about her experience with Portals. Megan is an outstanding example of a self described citizen developer, delivering MS Portals with excellence.

Other topics:

• Megan confesses her love of CSS, Daryl admits his disdain
• Scott pictures a Where's Waldo, Daryl Edition
• Megan admits to struggling with both Imposter Syndrome, and self pride.
• Daryl and Megan talk about their brothers
• Megan's portal Christmas wish

Links:

• Franco Musso - Franco Musso – Dynamics 365 Project Manager, Functional Consultant and Business Analyst
• Ulrikke Akerbæk - Ulrikke Akerbæk - Power Apps Portals expert at Skill AS (akerbak.com)
• JS Libraries:
  • PDFObject: A JavaScript utility for embedding PDFs
  • Data Tables | Table plug-in for jQuery
  • FullCalendar - JavaScript Event Calendar
• Filcon.io

Megan V. Walker's Info :

• Blog: https://meganvwalker.com/blog/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/
• Twitter: @MeganVWalker
• The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, we talk to Ben Vollmer, former Global Director for Field Service, about his involvement in the bringing down CRM Online for the entire world. It's a true blast from the past as most of it was before Daryl even logged into CRM online, and so long that Scott has forgotten most of it. Other topics:

• When CRM required XBOX
• Where has all of Daryl's code gone?
• Ben's interesting interpretation of bug free software
• Little Bobby Tables (https://xkcd.com/327/)

Ben's Links

• Twitter - @BenVollmer
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benvollmer/

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, we talk to long time MVP Andrew Butenko who is the creator of multiple extremely useful PCF controls (The most recent being a Clippy PCF control, how awesome is that, Clippy!) We announce that we will be running a contest for the best listener submitted questions, so submit yours today!

Andrew's Links

• Twitter: @a33ik
• YouTube: http://youtube.com/AndrewButenko
• Blog: http://butenko.pro/blog/
• GitHub: http://github.com/AndrewButenko
• Clippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vzKKBEcvM
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriibutenko

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Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, we talk to the current maintainer of the Plugin Registration Tool for the XrmToolBox. We talk through the history of the tool and what the future may hold for it as well as:

• Microsoft's announcement of being able to register additional DLLs
• DLL Hell
• The Auto Deployer Tool
• "War" Stories

Imran's Links

• Twitter: @imranakram365
• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: Imranakram1
• Github: ImranAkram

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected].

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen Music: https://www.purple-planet.com