Xrmtoolcast

Brand new baby MVP Matt Collins-Jones talks about his top 4 tools for creating Power Automate Flows, and the tools that we wish existed. Be sure to check out Matt's YouTube channel!  Lot's of great content! Tools Discussed: FetchXML Builder - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Cinteros.Xrm.FetchXmlBuilder/  Level Up - Level Up Chrome/Edge Store Metadata Browser - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.MetadataBrowser/  Flow to Visio - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/LinkeD365.FlowToVisio/  Matt's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcollins-jones/  Twitter: @D365Geek YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattCollinsJones  Website: https://www.d365geek.co.uk/  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

Fellow MVP Neil Benson needed some help on a project and decided to use a lifeline and called Daryl and Jonas to ask what tools to use to document a system for a technical assessment.  We decided to record the phone call for all to enjoy. Be sure to check out Neil's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series! Tools Discussed: SnapShot! For Dynamics 365 - https://www.xrmcoaches.com/snapshot/  Plugin Registration Tool - https://github.com/Innofactor/PluginRegistration  Attribute Usage Inspector - https://github.com/MscrmTools/MscrmTools.AttributeUsageInspector  Metadata Document Generator - https://github.com/MscrmTools/MsCrmTools.MetadataDocumentGenerator  PowerApps Checker - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/use-powerapps-checker    Neil's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilbenson/  Twitter: @Customery Pimp My LinkedIn Profile: Watch Here, Sign up Here  Website: https://www.customery.com/  Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to sh

Fellow MVP Amey Holden decides to turn the tables and interview us!  Be sure to check out Amey's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series! Topics Discussed: What was our first tool? 5318008 on our calculators What's are favorite tools we didn't create? 3d Dancing babies in PowerPoint: https://www.ameyholden.com/articles/i-didnt-know-powerpoint-could-do-that   Amey's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amey-holden/  Twitter: @AmeyHolden Pimp My LinkedIn Profile: Watch Here, Sign up Here  Blog: https://www.ameyholden.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://www.purple-planet.com

Repeat guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft talks about the (almost released) Power Platform ALM Starter Kit, a tool to help manage and solve all your Power Platform ALM woes! Topics Discussed: Center of Excellence (COE) Starter Kit Storing Theme data in CDS Issues with naming an advanced tool without making the non-advanced tool sound dumb. ALM App-ception, the Chicken and the Egg problem for tools   Marc's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devkeydet/ Twitter: @devkeydet COE Starter Kit: https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/ (Contains general guidance docs as well as the CoE Starter Kit docs). Theming module Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-theming Manuela Pichler Twitter: @ManuelaPichler_   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.

In this episode we continue our talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker.   Topics in this episode: Megan succumbs to Jonas's date formatting peer pressure. Jonas shoot's down Lisa's Australian tool ideas Jonas enjoys listening about dresses while running Lisa learns about the Iconnator and View Layout Replicator. Daryl can't keep guests and listeners straight The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/ Lisa Crosbie's Info: Blog: https://lisacrosbie.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crosbie/  Twitter: @LisaMCrosbie Megan V. Walker's Info : Blog: https://meganvwalker.com/blog/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/  Twitter: @MeganVWalker 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

In this episode we talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker talking about how their introduction to tools for the power platform as well.   Other topics: Lisa Crosbie explains how she annoyed her company IT department Jonas accuses Lisa of Being the Power Platform Jesus Megan talks about her Eureka moment with tools in the XTB Jonas learns about the Auto-Number Manager Daryl describes the Cardinal Rule for developers for naming things The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/ Lisa Crosbie's Info: Blog: https://lisacrosbie.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crosbie/  Twitter: @LisaMCrosbie Megan V. Walker's Info : Blog: https://meganvwalker.com/blog/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/  Twitter: @MeganVWalker 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://ww

In this episode we interview Carl Cookson, a creator of 3 XrmToolBox Tools.  We dive into each tool and why you should be using them. ERD Visio Builder - https://github.com/LinkeD365/ERDVisioBuilder Org Settings - https://github.com/LinkeD365/OrgSettings Mockaroo Data Munger - https://github.com/LinkeD365/MockarooDataMunger    Carl Cookson's Info: Blog: linkeD365.blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcookson/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinkeD365    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

In this episode we interview MVP Hardit Bhatia to talk about his brand new tool, "Power Apps Formula Reference".  We dive into the app, why it was created, how it's structured, and how it's intended to be used.  We also go off topic in few areas: Never let Joel Lindstrom introduce himself first Jonas wants more responsive functionality Daryl and the rest of Americans have it easy Logical names fore the win!   Hardit's Info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harditbhatia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepoweraddict Forum Profile: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88116 Blog: https://thepoweraddict.com/blog/ Email: Hardit.bhatia@thepoweraddict.com Power Apps Formula Reference: https://thepoweraddict.com/power-apps-formula-reference/ Power Apps Formula Reference direct download link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Community-App-Samples/Power-Apps-Formula-Reference/m-p/650191#M595   Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future

We've invited Julia Simpson, an F&O consultant new to the CRM/CDS world to gain insights on what it's like to be new to the CRM/CDS community, and the tools found within.  In this episode: Julia describes her first tool experience in the XrmToolBox. Julia describes her experience with the CRM/CDS community. Daryl still can't introduce a guess properly. Jonas is accused of bleeding on his icons. https://www.linkedin.com/in/Juliaj87/ https://twitter.com/Juliaj87   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

In this episode we interview MVPs Gus Gonzalez and Nicholas Hayduk, to talk about their new tool, Power Text!  We also discus: How 5 year MVPs have been MVPs for nearly a decade!  Gus's skill at getting others to do his dev dirty work. Nick's lack of sales skills. Jonas shared an Fetch Xml Builder update!   Nick's Info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholashayduk/ https://twitter.com/engineered_code https://www.youtube.com/c/EngineeredCode https://www.engineeredcode.com/blog Gus's Info: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhjoi4W_K7sLNpXr9Kqz8w https://twitter.com/@GusGonzalez2 elev8solutions.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggonzalez2/ 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

In this episode Jonas and Daryl each present their top 10 Tools for CRM/XRM/CDS Developers.   Jonas teaches Daryl about Win+V Jonas declares Sweden the "Home of the Imposter Syndrome" Daryl talks about America's love with blowing stuff up Daryl's Tools  Notepad++ Visual Studio/VS Code Early Bound Generator Attribute Manager WebResource Manager Visual Studio Solution Accelerator Script Finder/Form Libraries Manager LinqPad Canvas App Packager Ditto Jonas's Tools  Plugin Trace Viewer for XrmToolBox Plugin Registration for XrmToolBox CodeMaid for Visual Studio FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox StackOverflow Metadata Browser for XrmToolBox Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps Latebound Constants Generator for XrmToolBox Plugin Auto Deployer for XrmToolBox Canvas Code Reuse for 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/ @ddlaba

In this episode, we talk to 17 year MVP David Yack about the tools in his web page, CDS.tools  Daryl still manages to mess the introduction up, even after doing it 28 times. David walks through all of the tools in CDS.tools SDK Tools Download Business Rules Viewer Security Role Explorer Server Trigger Explorer Access Tokens WebAPI Builder Auto Number Creator Record Counts Azure Region Check Jonas pretends not to know about CRM online Daryl points out the new-ish RetrieveTotalRecordsCount request David's Links Blog - https://blog.davidyack.com/ Twitter - @DavidYack LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdave/ 365.training Cds.Tools Colorado Technology Consultants   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

In this episode, we talk to the expert of all things SQL to CDS, Mark Carrington, about the new SQL CDS endpoint and his SQL for CDS XrmToolBox tool. Jonas admits to not being able to write Fetch Xml as easily as SQL Mark walks through his tool and the differences/advantages between the new SQL CDS endpoint All agree that Jonas is "special" 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 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

In this episode we interview Ivan Ficko, the Dynamics Ninja, , about his new tool, the Yeoman Pcf Generator. Jonas and Daryl admit their PCF ignorance Ivan walks through the differences between his tool and other similar tools Ivan's Info Twitter: https://twitter.com/DynamicsNinja GitHub: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja Blog: https://dynamicsninja.blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanficko/ Email: ivan.ficko@outlook.com Ivan's Tools PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder 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

In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow (@ScottDurow) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss.  This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Should projects build their own?  How much would it handle? Should open source frameworks be used? Dangerous of the "Super Framework" Faxing requests How not to end a Podcast https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html   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

In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow (@ScottDurow) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss.  This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Daryl introduces Jonas to Weezer Should projects use straight SDK? Should projects build their own?  How much would it handle? Should open source frameworks be used? Dangerous of the "Super Framework" https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html   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

In this episode we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos, https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier), the creator of the Quick Edit Form, about his new tool. Clement explains why he made the Quick Edit Form control, and the learning experience with PCF and Office Fabric UI. Download the control here: https://github.com/carfup/PCFControls/releases Clement's Blog https://stuffandtacos.azurewebsites.net/2020/04/15/pcf-quick-edit-form/ 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

In this episode, Markus Erlandsson invites Daryl and Jonas to discuss early bound development vs late bound development, as both Daryl and Jonas have their own XrmToolBox tools to assist in these areas. Markus Erlandsson:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuserlandsson/  https://twitter.com/MarkusErlandsso  https://crmrocks.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://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, Jonas and Daryl talk through common tools for getting your technical problems solved, with a specific eye towards canvas apps.  We also invite Matt Devaney, a MS forums Appstronaut, to talk through the tools he uses to solve his questions. Forums – a Product that ages in reverse, the more you use it, the better it gets What old programming language books are used for How to get your questions answered Tips and Tricks for solving issues in Canvas Apps Links Collections Cookbook:  https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Community-App-Samples/Collections-Cookbook-50-Visual-Examples-amp-Code/td-p/437594 Power Platform Forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/   Matt Devaney: https://twitter.com/mattbdevaney -- 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://ww

In this episode, Jonas and Daryl walk through Jonas' newest tool for the XrmToolBox, the UML Diagram Generator.  We also invite Reece Campbell, a beta user of the tool, to talk through his experience with using it. PlantUML and it's features Shorten the XrmToolBox to XBox? What advantages/disadvantages it has over the Entity Relation Diagram Creator Daryl makes plea for free testing Would the real D La B please stand up?   Links UML Document Generator: https://jonasr.app/UML PlantUML: https://plantuml.com/ VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.plantuml Reece Campbell: https://ramblingreece.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/ramblingreece https://www.linkedin.com/in/reececampbell/ -- 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: htt