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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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.

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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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

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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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  Listener Letters! Please send to cast@xrmtoolbox.com or you can mail them to  XrmToolCast 9783 E 116th St #123 Fishers, IN 46037-2822   Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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/ @rap

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: Imran@Biznamics.com 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Musi

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: Benedikt@benediktbergmann.eu  Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @ra

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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen Music: https://

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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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