XrmToolCast

In this episode, we talk to brand new baby MVP Mark Carrington, creator of the SQL 4 CDS XTB tool, about his new improvements.

• Scott is Canadian, Eh?
• SQL 4 CDS Safe Guards and Query Optimization

Mark's Links

• Blog - https://markcarrington.dev/
• SQL 4 CDS https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MarkMpn.SQL4CDS/ https://markcarrington.dev/sql-4-cds/ https://github.com/MarkMpn/Sql4Cds
• Twitter - @MarkMpn
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carrington-1499a010/
• Work https://www.data-8.co.uk/ https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=data8&page=1

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, Daryl and Scott talk with long time fellow MVP, Guido Preite. Guido is the caretaker of the PCF Gallery as well as a the creator of the Dependent Option Set Manager. Other topics discussed:

• Scott is wearing pants
• StackOverflow rivalries never die
• Guido's former newsletter
• You need to do something until you like it
• Guido's name change refusal

Guido's info and other links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/crmanswers
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite/
• Blog: https://www.crmanswers.net/
• PCF Gallery: https://pcf.gallery/
• Dependent Option Set Manager: https://crmoptionsets.azurewebsites.net/

Video of Jonas's update: https://youtu.be/gsHb1WPPGwU

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, Daryl announces Scott as the new co-host, and he, as well as guest Benedikt Bergmann, teach Daryl how to transition to managed solutions. There is also a short clip from Jonas! The following are discussed:

• Managed Solutions Aren't Unmanaged
• Keep it Simple
• One Solution to Rule them All
• Some interesting ALM options

Benedikt's info and other links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BergmannBene
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-bergmann/
• Blog: https://benediktbergmann.eu
• Email: [email protected]

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, Daryl interviews James Novak. James is the maintainer of a slew of WinForm controls designed for the XrmToolBox, as well as the Document Template Manager Plugin. This is a dev heavy episode where the following topics are discussed:

• Shared Projects
• Source Only Nuget Files
• Sharing code in XrmToolBox Projects
• ILMerge/ILRepack
• Pitfalls we ran into
• XrmToolBox.com ratings improvement
• CodeNow

James's Info and other links:

• Blog: https://futurezconsulting.com/blog
• LinkedIn: JamesNovak
• Twitter: @crmdevjim
• https://github.com/jamesnovak/xrmtb.XrmToolBox.Controls
• https://github.com/jamesnovak/XrmDocumentTemplateManager
• https://github.com/gluck/il-repack
• https://github.com/dotnet/ILMerge
• https://github.com/ashlega/TreeCat.XrmToolBox

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

Linn Zaw Win shares his journey of attempting to document every single tool in the Power Platform universe, focusing first on the tools in the XrmToolBox. Daryl also gives an update on Jonas. Linn shares:

• Link to tools documented: https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/tools.html
• Tools that surprised him
• The steps he follows to document the tools.
• Environment Comparer - https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/nenvironmentcomparer.html
• CDS Data Migrator tool https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/cds-data-migrator.html
• Attributes Factory https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/attributes-factory.html

Linn's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/linnzawwin
• Blog: https://linnzawwin.blogspot.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

It has been a difficult week this week on the XrmToolCast with Jonas suffering a stroke. Daryl has invited some of Jonas' fellow co-workers and MVPs to talk about what happened, how Jonas is doing now, and how we, the community, can support him.

• Consider Donating to Jonas via http://fetchxmlbuilder.com/donate

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

Jonas and Daryl have a friendly talk between themselves, walking through all the new tools they've recently released. There may also be some Dad jokes in the episode, so make sure listen all the way to the end. Tools covered:

• Custom Action Tester
• Custom API Tester
• XrmToolBox Integration Tester
• Portal Entity Permission Manager
• Outlook Timesheet Calculator

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

Mike Stall joins us to talk about the work that Microsoft has just publicly released for Canvas Apps in the form of the Power Apps Source File Pack and Unpack Utility. Topics Covered:

• What are the end design goals.
• YAML, Why?
• Checkout the blog post here or visit the GitHub page here

Mike's Info:

• LinkedIn: MikeStall
• Blog: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jmstall/

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

Dataverse has had custom actions for some time now, and now, a similar new tool is available to Dataverse developer, Custom APIs. We've brought David Rivard on to not only help define what they are, but to talk about his new Dataverse Custom API collection. Other topics covered:

• What's the difference between Custom APIs and Custom Actions?
• What are the current hang-ups with Custom APIs, and what does Jonas want it to be?
• Why APIs are helpful for ISVs
• Jonas and David start collaborating on future tools while on air (one of which became the Custom API Manager for XrmToolBox)

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 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

High quality blogs are always a helpful, and in this episode we speak to the managing editor of Dynamics Chronicles, Lloyd Sebag. It started as a conversation into the XTB tools documented on the site, but dived into much much more!

Check out Dynamics Chronicles website, and the team that brings it to life:

• Stéphan Drouard
• Danny Rodrigues Alves
• Amaury Veron
• Mattias Liloia
• Lorenz Prandini
• Fabian Kalchofner

Matt's Info and other links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-sebag/
• Twitter: @DynamicsChronic

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