XrmToolCast

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Product Manager at Microsoft, Mankirat Kaur Bajwa, about the developer environments in Power Platform.

Some of the highlights:

• Developers, Developers, Developers
• Personal Trash Can Environment
• License requirements
• Dataverse is like a drug, and the first dev env is free
• Limitations of dev env
• Treating dev environments as "cattle"
• Power Platform pipelines and dev env
• Governance of dev env
• Development environments of power

MK's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mk-bajwa
• About the Power Apps Developer Plan: https://learn.microsoft.com/power-platform/developer/plan
• Making Dataverse available for all makers: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/making-it-easier-to-work-with-dataverse

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Michael Megel about the PowerApps Helper VS Code extension and its new features.

Some of the highlights:

• History of PowerApps Helper VSCode Extension
• Where can we get this tool
• Features of the tool
  • Creation of Custom Connectors
  • Visualization of Environments
  • Visualization of Solution Dependencies
• Scott and Michael talk about bearer tokens
• Advice on writing a new VS Code extension
• Michael suggests splitting your custom connectors from your canvas apps
• A deep dive Power Platform ALM
• ChatGPT writes a VS Code extension to connect to Dataverse
• When you're dead, it's hard to learn more
• The joy of preview

Michael's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmegel
• @MMe2K
• Blog: https://never-stop-learning.de
• PowerApps Helper (VSCode Marketplace): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=megel.mme2k-powerapps-helper
• PowerApps Helper (GitHub): https://github.com/megel/powerapps-helper

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Global Blackbelt Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft, Carsten Groth, about the Power Platform pipelines.

Some of the highlights:

• What does Global Blackbelt do
• Why ALM, Pipeline, DevOps, etc. become a hot topic lately in Power Platform
• How long have Power Platform pipelines been available
• What are people using it for
• A typical cycle of projects from beginning to moving into production
• What are the recommendations before even starting the pipelines
• Not to close down the creativity of the makers
• Elevated pitch for Power Platform pipelines
• What kind of user-friendly error messages do Power Platform pipelines show for missing artefacts
• How easy it is to set up the Power Platform pipelines
• How do Power Platform pipelines handle some of the prompts during the solution import process (Connection Reference, Environment Variable, etc.)
• Best way to set up Power Platform pipelines
• What happens once we enable managed environments for a particular environment

Carsten's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carstengroth
• @carsten_growth
• Blog: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com
• Pipelines in Power Platform is Generally Available (GA): https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/pipelines-in-power-platform-is-generally-available-ga
• Power Platform pipelines blog post series
  • https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/power-platform-pipelines
  • The Admin View: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/power-platform-pipelines-the-admin-view
  • Makers & Environment Variables: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/power-platform-makers-environment-variables
  • The Security Model: https://carstengroth.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/power-platform-pipelines-the-security-model

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode of XrmToolCast, the hosts Daryl and Scott welcomed Kristine Kolodziejski, a Microsoft MVP and a Technical Architect, to talk about ChatGPT-3, Bing Chat, and other AI-powered tools. Kristine shared her experience using these tools to enhance personal productivity and save time.

The discussion began with talking about ChatGPT-3, an advanced natural language processing model developed by OpenAI. Kristine explained how ChatGPT-3 and other AI tools could be used to save us time and spend more time gaming or chilling on the beach. She also talked about some of the challenges and limitations of using AI-powered chatbots, such as the need for typing correct spelling or providing more context to get more detailed responses.

The conversation then moved on to Bing Chat, a chatbot building platform provided by Microsoft. Kristine discussed how using a ChatGPT would not make someone a developer overnight and the more someone knows about the topics that are asked in ChatGPT, the more helpful answers will be generated. Then, Scott asked Kristine about ethics and AI.

Finally, the hosts and Kristine discussed other AI-powered tools that can be used for generating presentation slides, presentation videos, video creation and image editing. They talked about how these tools can be used to brainstorm, generate initial draft content, summarise content, etc.

Overall, this episode of XrmToolCast provided valuable insights into the world of AI-powered tools, and how they can be used to generate content and save a lot of time.

Some of the highlights:

• Games
  • Factorio
  • Age Of Empires
• ChatGPT
• Bing Chat
• Some of the highs and lows of ChatGPT
• Ethics and AI
• Tome - AI-powered tool to generate slide deck
• beHuman – AI yourself in presentations
• D-ID - AI-generated video creation platform
• Runway - content creation with artificial intelligence
• Nvidia Eye Contact AI from Broadcast 1.4

Kristine's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristine-kolodziejski
• @kristinekk94
• Blog: https://www.kristinekolodziejski.com
• Github: https://github.com/misskristine94
• ChatGPT PCF Control by Danish: https://pcf.gallery/chatgpt-control
  • YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/qDMOvLGCzHM

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott interview Clément Olivier, fellow BizApps MVP, and chat about his original tools for the XrmToolBox, the Delta Plugins, and the new tool which allows you to rename the views in bulk.

Some of the highlights:

• Delta Plugins: Local Assembly vs CRM - to compare the plugins classes Plugin between the local vs the plugin assembly registered in the Dataverse environment
• Delta Plugin Steps between two environments
  • to compare plugin steps between two of your environments
  • export the results into an Excel sheet
• Daryl overwhelmed a new grad with a code review
• Using Preview features in production
• Pain points with the solution management
• View Renamer - bulk search and replace to bulk rename the views
• Homework for Clement from the hosts

Clément's Info and other links:

• • https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier
  • @Clement0livier
  • Blog: https://stuffandtacos.azurewebsites.net
  • Delta Plugins: Local Assembly vs CRM: https://github.com/carfup/XTBPlugins.DeltaAssemblyvsCrm
  • Delta Plugin Steps between two environments: https://github.com/carfup/XTBPlugins.DeltaAssemblyvsCrm
  • View Renamer: https://github.com/carfup/XTBPlugins.ViewRenamer
  • Buy him a coffee if you appreciate his contribution to the community: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clementolivier
  • Previous episodes with Clément
    • The Business Process Flow Manager w/ Clement Olivier & Gus Gonzalez: https://xrmtoolcast.libsyn.com/the-business-process-flow-manager-w-clement-olivier-gus-gonzalez
    • The Quick Edit Form, A PCF Control: https://xrmtoolcast.libsyn.com/the-quick-edit-form-a-pcf-control
    • New XrmToolBox Tool PCF to BPF with Clément Olivier: https://xrmtoolcast.libsyn.com/new-xrmtoolbox-tool-pcf-to-bpf-with-clment-olivier

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Nathan Helgren, about the Virtual Tables.

Some of the highlights:

• Nathan's 25 years at MS
• What are Virtual Tables (VT)?
• Difference between a Connector and a VT
• Create virtual tables using the virtual connector provider
• Virtual Dad Jokes abound
• Virtualize all the things?
• Building Power Apps using 100% virtual tables
• What are the VT Limits? 
  • No Audit functionality
  • No Rollup or Joins between VT
• How VT security works
• GUID column is still a hard requirement for VT
• Query through TDS endpoint from SQL VT
• Benefits of pulling through data in real-time in VT
• Making more data sources available for the virtual connector provider
• Reasons to re-visit VT again for those who have used it long ago

Nathan's Info and other links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nhelgren
• Online documents:
  • Create virtual tables using connectors https://learn.microsoft.com/power-apps/maker/data-platform/create-virtual-tables-using-connectors
  • Known limitations and troubleshooting with virtual tables https://learn.microsoft.com/power-apps/maker/data-platform/limits-tshoot-virtual-tables
  • Setting up relationships with virtual tables with Power Apps https://learn.microsoft.com/power-apps/maker/data-platform/setup-virtual-table-relationships
• Videos:
  • Virtual tables overview: https://youtu.be/weyEDIKhi18
  • Create virtual tables: https://youtu.be/ttw4bF1mT3g
  • Integrate virtual tables with Dataverse: https://youtu.be/gjum546ycpg

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, Scott Sewell, about the Power BI Dynamics 365 Sales Templates.

Some of the highlights:

• Daryl's Europe trip
• Scott's superpower is working with Data, from SSIS/Kingswaysoft to SSRS to Power BI
• How Scott got into using the Titanic
• What not to do when starting with Power BI
• Scott explains a star schema for Daryl
• Scott walks through his Power BI Templates
• Using pre-GA Power BI Solution imports
• Scott shares his proposal story

Scott's Info and other links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mscottsewell
• Twitter: @scottsewell
• GitHub: https://github.com/mscottsewell
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MSFT_ScottSewell
• Power BI ❤️ Dynamics 365 Sales! Report Templates - https://github.com/mscottsewell/Power-BI-D365-Sales
• Power BI modeling guidance for Power Platform - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-modeling-guidance-for-power-platform
• A "Solution" for Power BI with Dynamics 365 Sales - https://youtu.be/mcdpm_5skpA

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Julian Sharp, about the study groups that he runs for the Microsoft certification exams.

Some of the highlights:

• Julian's impressive beard
• Study Groups
  • Meet twice a week, Thursday Evening and Sunday Morning
  • Run on Teams
  • 10 sessions over a couple of months
  • Ask users to show up, ask questions
• How do people decide where to specialize?
• Microsoft Power Up
• Julians Flow vs Logic Apps Preferences
• Julian's love for Goals in the Sales Exams

Julian's Info and other links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliansharp
• Twitter: @juliandynamics
• Blog: https://ukcrm.wordpress.com

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft employee Kartik Kanakasabesan about the Power Apps CLI.

Some of the highlights:

• The origin and history of the PAC
• New Tools to install using PAC
• Submitting a PR to PAC
• Using PAC in Azure DevOps
• PAC Canvas Create

Kartik's Info and other links:

• Kartik Kanakasabesan - LinkedIn
• @kkanakas
• List of Kartik blog posts - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/kartikka
• Related blog posts
  • Power Platform Developer Tools monthly release blog - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-platform-developer-tools-monthly-release-september-refresh
  • PAC Canvas Create - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automatically-create-a-power-app-from-a-rest-api
  • PAC CLI in Azure DevOps - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-version-of-power-platform-build-tools-and-a-feature-packed-update-of-power-platform-cli
• Dataverse Service Client - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerPlatform-DataverseServiceClient
• NuGet Packages
  • PP CLI on Windows - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI
  • PP CLI on Linux - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Core.linux-x64
  • PP CLI on OSX64 - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Core.osx-x64
• GitHub repository
  • Github Actions - https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-actions
  • VS Code extension - https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-vscode

Microsoft will be opening up the pac cli code on GitHub as read only soon for the time being please submit PAC CLI requests in these GitHub repos or send your feedback to [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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Jonas talk to Mark Carrington, Chris Piasecki and Matt Beard about the XrmToolBox Basics.

Some of the highlights:

• Why do we need to get back to the basics
• Connection List
  • Managing Connections in XrmToolBox: https://youtu.be/mC5FR_LaY4w
• Different ways of connecting environments
• Set environment highlight colour
• Define browser and profile
• Why Tanguy couldn't join the show
• Change icon size in the tools list
• Order tools list by most used
• Contribute tools by providing a review, feedback or raising a pull request
• How to improve abandoned tool projects
• Impersonate in XrmToolBox or Level up extension
• Backup XrmToolBox storage folder on the cloud
• XrmToolBox storage folder path
  • %AppData%\MscrmTools\XrmToolBox
  • Full Path - C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\MscrmTools\XrmToolBox
• You don't need to install tools in XrmToolBox
• Setting for open Tool Library on the startup
• Add to favourites with connection
• Postpone the tool update

Mark's Info and other links:

• Blog - https://markcarrington.dev
• GitHub - https://github.com/MarkMpn
• Twitter - @MarkMpn
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/MarkMpn

Chris's Info and other links:

• Twitter - @ChrisPiasecki89
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-piasecki

Matt's Info and other links:

• Blog - https://mbeard.co.uk
• Twitter - @mattybeard
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbeard7

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Andrew Butenko, about the new v2 of his ABDialogs.

Some of the highlights:

• How to design for both Low-Coders and Pro-Coders
• Documentation vs video tutorial
• Scott wants to go to the museum
• Difficulties in implementing Lookup
• PowerFx in Dialogs?
• Andrew's Imposter Syndrome
• Supporting Ukraine 

Andrew's Info and other links:

• Twitter: @a33ik
• YouTube: http://youtube.com/AndrewButenko
• Blog: http://butenko.pro/blog/
• GitHub: http://github.com/AndrewButenko
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriibutenko
• ABDialogs V2: https://github.com/AndrewButenko/ABDialogsV2
• Supporting Ukraine
  • “Back Alive” fund: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card-monthly
  • Serhiy Prytula charity foundation: https://prytulafoundation.org/en/home/support_page#Paypal

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Phil Cole, a long-time listener of XrmToolCast, about using the PowerFx open-source library in various ways.

Some of the highlights:

• Daryl's #SummitNA experience
• Phil decides to use all the preview things!
• Jurassic Park - Can we, but should we?
• Scott subscribe to the RSS feed of PowerFX GitHub
• Homework assignment for Phil
• Scott's idea about using RPA to migrate reference data with the same GUID
• Daryl's worst calculated field ever
• Daryl learns to use the Expando object
• Does PowerFx Compile, or Interpret
• PowerFx in the Test App

Phil's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/filcole
• Blog: https://philcole.org
• Power Fx via Custom API (GitHub Project)
• Using Power Fx in Cloud Flows (GitHub Project)
• Power Fx Prime Sieve (GitHub Project)
• Danish's blog about Expando

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft employee Manuela Pichler about the Power CAT CoE Starter Kit (https://aka.ms/coestarterkit).

Some of the highlights:

• Scott returns from the Power Platform conference
• Dogs with separation anxiety 
• CoE - Spreading the excellence
• Who should be using it?

Manuela's Info and other links:

• Manuela Pichler - LinkedIn
• @ManuelaPichler_

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Dani Kahil about multiple cheat sheets that he prepared over the last 2 years.

Some of the highlights:

• Scott talks about punts
• Daryl confesses to cheating in high school
• Cheatsheets
• Better late than never introduction by Daryl
• MS CRM 2013 Client API Cheat Sheet by Rami Mounla
• Daryl and Scoot give Dani homework
• What's a Trapezoid again?
• Dani's course
• The most geographically isolated Biz Apps MVP
• Dani's future ideas
• Handling our human mistakes
• Devs watching QA test the product https://twitter.com/sanjazakovska/status/1352557733787152389

Dani's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danikahil
• Blog: https://danikahil.com/category/cheatsheet

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Sid Gundavarapu and Jesse Parsons from Microsoft, and chat about the ESLint rules for Power Apps model-driven apps and Dynamics 365 CE.

Some of the highlights:

• What is ESLint?
• What are ESLint rules for Power Apps and Dynamics 365?
• ESLint is like a grammar check for code
• Power Apps ESLint npm package vs Solution Checker
• Targeted audience for ESLint rules 
• Security-focused ESLint rules
• ESLint auto-fix
• Daryl's Christmas wish
• Recommended approach for those who are not using TypeScript yet Spell Checker for VS Code

Sid's Info:

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

Jesse's Info:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-parsons-7295b426

Other links:

• Announcement blog post: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-eslint-rules-for-power-apps-and-dynamics-365/
• Discuss feedback/suggestions/concerns on the ESLint rules for Power Apps: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Pro-Dev-ISV/Power-Apps-ESLint-npm-package-public-preview/m-p/1679862

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Raphaël Pothin, a user and consumer of Jupyter Notebook, about the Power Platform Notebook Templates.

Some of the highlights:

• TMNT
• What is Jupyter Notebook
• Code and Markdown Cells in Jupyter Notebook
• Is VB still a thing
• Where/how Notebooks can be used
• Use case scenario to use Notebooks for Power Platform
• Raphaël's MVP journey
• Raphaël's upcoming activities
• Don't Accept the Defaults - Abel Wang https://www.bonfire.com/dont-accept-the-defaults-abel-wang

Raphaël's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-pothin-642bb657
• @RaphaelPothin
• Polywork: https://poly.work/rpothin
• Blog: https://medium.com/rapha%C3%ABl-pothin
• GitHub: https://github.com/rpothin
• Notebooks:
  • Power Platform Notebook Templates: https://github.com/rpothin/Power-Platform-Notebooks
  • https://github.com/dotnet/interactive
  • Automating Diagnostic Notebooks with Azure Serverless Architecture: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/data-exposed/automating-diagnostic-notebooks-with-azure-serverless-architecture
  • Automate Jupyter Notebooks for diagnostics: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/data/automating-diagnostic-jupyter-notebook

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Neil Benson who is a host of his own podcast, Amazing Apps, about tools and suggestions for estimating projects.

Some of the highlights:

• Estimating Business Applications
• Estimating in time sucks
• Neil's Favorite tool for estimating?  His phone calculator app
• Neil wants Daryl to run 10km uphill, in the rain, over a bridge with holes...
• Managing Work Items/Sprints using Azure DevOps (SpecMap, StoriesOnBoard)
• Jira with precious user interface
• Estimating projects for RFPs
• Neil has multiple birthdays
• Drink driving vs Drunk Driving
• AmazingApps.Show
  • People that have built amazing apps
  • Answer questions on topics
• Why Neil still plays with LEGO
• CRM Lady and stock images

Neil's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilbenson
• @customery
• The LinkedIn post about painting your house that triggered Scott: Do you estimate projects in days? I did, and my estimates sucked.
• Customery Academy website: https://customery.academy
• Customery Academy YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/customeryacademy
• Join Estimating Business Apps free mini-course: https://customery.academy/courses/estimating
• Amazing Apps podcast: https://amazingapps.show/111

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Michael Ochs about the latest updates of the ALM Accelerator.

Some of the highlights:

• Latest updates about ALM Accelerator
• What is Healthy ALM
  • Using Solutions
  • Everything is code
  • Be able to deploy to a downstream environment at the push of a button
• What is the future of ALM Accelerator?
• Unopinionated ALM Accelerator
• Extensivity of ALM Accelerator
• Full support for plugins/PCF controls?
• The PAC CLI bug

Mike's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsochs
• @MikeFactorial
• Blog: https://mikefactorial.com
• Github: https://github.com/mikefactorial
• ALM Accelerator Repo - https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit
• ALM Accelerator Pipelines and Templates Repo - https://github.com/microsoft/coe-alm-accelerator-templates
• ALM Accelerator Project and Backlog - https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/projects/233
• Setup Docs - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-almacceleratorpowerplatform-cli
• User Docs - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/almacceleratorpowerplatform-components

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott interview Kristine Kolodziejski, Gamer/Drummer/Piano girl, about the latest neumorphic UI design kits for Power Apps canvas apps.

Some of the highlights:

• Reading release notes for 2022 Wave 2
• Standing on the shoulders of giants
• Music is a part of Kristine's life
• Nails on the keyboard
• Skeuomorphism / Neumorphism UI trend
• Kristine tells her story
• Neumorphic UI Kit
• Tools for UI design and HTML

Kristine's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristine-kolodziejski
• @kristinekk94
• Blog: https://www.kristinekolodziejski.com
• Github: https://github.com/misskristine94
• Resources: 
  • Dribbble - https://dribbble.com
  • Codepen - https://codepen.io
  • Figma - https://www.figma.com

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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

In this episode, Daryl talks to fellow MVP Temmy Wahyu Raharjo about the Dependency Injection, and Developer Rabbit Holes/Perfectionism.

Some of the highlights:

• What is Dependency Injection?
• How is it different from Inversion of Control
• ILMerge Divide
• Testing a plugin which calls an external service without testing the external service
• How to start learning .NET Core for the beginners
• Daryl #EarlyBoundForever
• Rabbit hole over-engineering
• More developer horror stories
• Temmy's MVP Journey
• Mental health update of XrmToolCast

Temmy's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/temmy-wahyu-raharjo
• @temmy_raharjo
• Blog: https://temmyraharjo.wordpress.com

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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 shared horror stories about things that did not go quite as planned and the pranks they have pulled on their colleagues.

Some of the highlights:

• If you were an interviewer, would you hire someone who answers "I have never done anything wrong in my career"
• Battle scars of Daryl and Scott
• Two Concurrent Publish All actions could make the server hang in the early days of CRM online
• Daryl attached a debugger to the process on the on-prem server and everyone complained that the Dev instance was not working
• Using the same service principal across multiple environments and hitting API limit affects all environments
• Daryl almost truncated one of the tables in the UAT environment with millions of records
• Daryl's home renovation horror stories
• The worst sinking feeling that Scott had
• Daryl's car buying experience
• Inheriting a project with JavaScript without namespaces and the web resource files without extensions
• What do you do when you inherit the project with no source code for the plugin or the source code does not match the functionality?
• What is worse than having no error message for an error?
• What is your error handling approach for plugin development?
• The disadvantage of deploying the PCF Code Component or assembly compiled in debug mode to a Production environment
• Testing as a system administrator
• Things to look out for before reparenting the business unit
• What is the worst auto-numbering solution that you have seen?
• A bug in Retrieve plugin for systemuser table locked everyone out of the system
• Pranks that Daryl has pulled on his colleagues
• Be careful what you encourage by giving badges when you gamify the system
• Less code, fewer horror stories

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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 Maciej Kornacki and chat about the new Managed Solution Bulk Remover tool as well as the Unmanaged Active Layer Bulk Remover tool.

Some of the highlights:

• Hoodie vs Jumper
• Unmanaged Active Layer Bulk Remover
• Managed Solution Bulk Remover
• Uninstalling MS Marketing is horror stories
• Maciej let Power Virtual Agents answer some of the questions (Apologies for the robotic sound)
• Feature requests by the hosts as usual
• Future open-sourced Umbraco Portal tool

Maciej's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciejkornacki
• @kornackimaciej
• Umraco Portal Tool: https://www.externable.com
• #TooLDR blog post for Unmanaged Active Layer Bulk Remover
• #TooLDR blog post for Managed Solution Bulk Remover

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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 Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and chat about his Early-bound experience and feature requests for the EarlyBound Entity Generator.

Some of the highlights:

• Daryl makes himself a fool
• Daryl teaches Jonas about Benedict Arnold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold)
• Jonas dives into his Early-bound experience
• Deliver 100% of your obligations in 25% of your time
• Jonas tells Daryl what he needs to do with the EarlyBound Entity Generator
• If you don't have all the entities that you're working with inside a solution, then you're doing wrong
• Is it worth filtering specific attributes/columns in generating early-bound entity classes?
• Power Platform Level Up Dev Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/EpKUVj3Qu3

Jonas's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen
• @rappen
• The tool doc: XRM Tokens Runner
• The code doc: XRM Tokens
• Session video from South Coast Summit
• Blog on Power Apps Studio and GitHub

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Diana Birkelbach, PCF Lady, about the latest improvements for the Colorful Optionset PCF control.

Some of the highlights:

• If it ain’t your computer, don’t touch the screen
• Using React and Fluent UI for PCF Control
• Diana's helpful hints for picking up react
• What is React-based virtual code component
• Advantages of Virtual Controls
  • Size of files
  • Visible Performance improvements
  • Allows for Some Fluent UI controls to communicate across PCF controls
• What happens when MS update the React used in the platform?
• Diana talks through some of her future plans/ideas for Canvas Apps/Custom Pages
• Diana shares her PCF  Wishlist
• Scott apologizes to the Classic UI
• Jonas used Early Bound in a Plugin
• Diana's "Hooked to PCF" session in Power Apps Developer Bootcamp

Diana's Info and other links:

• Blog - https://dianabirkelbach.wordpress.com
• Twitter - @DianaBirkelbach
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-birkelbach
• GitHub - https://github.com/brasov2de
• Power Apps Community Forum for questions - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Pro-Dev-ISV/bd-p/pa_component_framework
• Colorful Optionset PCF – Virtual and Improved https://dianabirkelbach.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/colorful-optionset-pcf-virtual-and-improved
• UpdateView in Virtual PCF Components and how to optimize rendering https://dianabirkelbach.wordpress.com/2022/05/06/updateview-in-virtual-pcf-components-and-how-to-optimize-rendering

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Mark Carrington, a 3rd-time repeat guest of the show, about the new features added in the latest version of SQL 4 CDS.

Some of the highlights:

• Daryl is allergic to duck eggs
• Scott looks like a quail egg person
• Variables and For Loop Support in SQL 4 CDS
• Execution plan view
• SQL 4 CDS now provides an ADO connection
  • Possible uses for it
• Naming things is one of the hardest things in Computer Science
• Where the TDS endpoint is still useful
• Current limitations with TDS endpoint
• .NET Core connector for on-prem databases

Mark's Info and other 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
• Blog posts about the latest updates for SQL 4 CDS https://markcarrington.dev/2022/04/11/sql-4-cds-ado-net-provider/ https://markcarrington.dev/2022/04/11/sql-4-cds-v6-released/

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Casey Burke and Prabhat Pandey from Microsoft, and chat about the new command designer with Power Fx.

Some of the highlights:

• Various Classic Games
• History of Commanding
• How it got pitched/approved
• Biggest problem
  • Not interrupting customers
  • Integrating with the Solution
  • Model migration
  • Managing the ALM process
  • Integrating with PowerFx Microservices
• How it works
• When Ribbon Workbench is still required
• Do standard Devs write PowerFx?
• When it is going to be GA
• Daryl incorrectly calling "the Ribbon Toolbench" TWICE
• Will unsupported use of OOB library functions break?

Casey's Info:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-burke-microsoft
• @caseyburke21

Prabhat's Info:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabhatpandey
• @prabhatp

Other links:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/command-designer-overview

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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 Carl Cookson, supposedly (Ex) Developer & fellow MVP, and chat about the new XrmToolBox Tool - BPF To Visio Builder.

Some of the highlights:

• Daryl Read-off-the-people's-Twitter-profile LaBar
• Do former Devs need to keep up their Dev chops?
• Does someone need to be a good developer to be a good manager?
• Field games that the hosts and the guest are familiar with
• Other XrmToolBox tools that Carl built under the name of LinkeD365
• Using documentation tools to capture a snapshot of the delivered system
• What's the gap that you cannot document now in XrmToolBox
• Benefits of automating the documentation
• Documentation is always out of Date
• Copypasta

Carl's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcookson
• @LinkeD365
• Blog: https://linked365.blog
• BPFs To Visio: https://linked365.blog/BPFToVisio

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Clément Olivier, fellow BizApps MVP, and chat about the new XrmToolBox Tool - PCF to BPF.

Some of the highlights:

• Gardening Podcast
• PCF to BPF
• How Custom Controls are added to BPF Table FormXml
• Adding Choices field to Data Step of BPF
• Crashing the XrmToolBox Worldwide
• What Clément didn't test
• Virtual DOM for Fluent
• What are the bounds on a PCF control in the BPF

Clément's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier
• @Clement0livier
• Blog: https://stuffandtacos.azurewebsites.net
• PCF2BPF: https://github.com/carfup/XTBPlugins.PCF2BPF
• Buy him a coffee if you appreciate his contribution to the community: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/clementolivier

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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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 talks about his newest tool in his toolbelt, ZoomIt.  A Windows utility from Sys Internals for drawing on your screen.  

Some of the highlights:

• Sorry, not many highlights... Just Daryl doing his thing!  :)

Links:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Mike Stall, Power Fx Architect at Microsoft, and chat about the Canvas Apps GitHub Integration.

Some of the highlights:

• Was there any master plan behind canvas apps expressions to take over the whole platform?
• Daryl's "Managing the Low Code Portion of Complex Power Apps" session
• The humble beginning
• Extremely Experimental Git Collaboration
• How maniacal edits are being handled
• Git blame and naming is hard
• Will GitHub Integration come to model-driven apps?
• Noisy diffs and other scary parts of making GitHub Integration happen
• Prioritisation is a challenge
• Help the team behind the GitHub Integration by providing feedback
• Writing 10-page paper with MS Word 95 on Windows 95
• View the diffs between different versions on Git

Mike's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-stall-b0762b7
• Announcement: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/experimental-co-authoring-for-power-apps-studio
• Documentation for Canvas Coauthoring:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/git-version-control
• Power Apps Language Tooling repo: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-Language-Tooling
• PowerFX repo:  https://github.com/microsoft/power-fx

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Guido Preite, the repeat guest of the XrmTool Cast, and chat about the new PCF Gallery search and his latest tool, Dataverse Rest Builder.

Some of the highlights:

• Word of the day "Esthete"
• How Dataverse Rest Builder fetches metadata
• Guido tells nerdy stories
• Process of publishing a new tool in XrmToolBox
• Maintaining energy on long projects
• Recursive programming is no joke
• New PCF.Gallery Search
• Guido did not author all controls on the PCF.Gallery (apart from one)

Guido's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite
• @crmanswers
• CRM Answers Blog
• PCF Gallery
• Dependent Option Set Manager
• Dataverse Rest Builder

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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 Crackling Fireplace Sound by JuliusH from Pixabay

Daryl and Scott interview Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and chat about his latest tool, the XRM Tokens Runner.

Some of the highlights:

• Scott and his own tissue brand
• Jonas's Health
• History of XRM Tokens Runner
• ToEntityReference with KeyAttributes
• How to ask a question to Jonas
• Understanding your Audience

Jonas's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen
• @rappen
• The tool doc: XRM Tokens Runner
• The code doc: XRM Tokens
• Session video from South Coast Summit
• Blog on Power Apps Studio and GitHub

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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

This is a special thank you episode from Daryl where he thanks 10 individuals that have made a significant impact on the XrmToolCast.  Thank you to all that you do and have done!  Best wishes to 2022 for all of you!

1. Tanguy Touzard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard/ 
2. Jonas Rapp - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/
3. Scott Durow - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/
4. Linn Zaw Win - https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/
5. Danish Naglekar -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar/
6. Guido Preite - https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite/
7. Julie Yack - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieyack/
8. Gus Gonzalez - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggonzalez2/
9. Joel Lindstrom - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joellindstrom/
10. Matt Barbour - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-barbour-02702b1/ 

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Heidi Neuhauser about Top 10 Tools to Help You Be A Super System Admin.

10-part blog series:

1. Managing Business Settings
2. Security Model Tools
3. Global Search
4. Table (Entity) Search
5. Dynamics 365 App for Outlook
6. UI Controls
7. Model-driven Apps
8. Field Mapping
9. Business Rules
10. XrmToolBox Tools

Other topics:

• Christmas Decorations
• If something goes wrong, it's 90% probability that it's gonna be security
• Releasing different versions of tools for on-prem
• The strong ever reason to stay on-prem
• Code components
• Things to consider when choosing an opensource code component by Sara Lagerquist
• Emojis are the answer to everything
• Create child record mapping fields data from Parent Using InitializeFromRequest from SDK
• Challenges of using business rules and Javascripts together
• Daryl needs a dog
• Running with #MontcoRunners
• Shout out to Megan V. Walker for sponsoring at Podchaser

Heidi's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidineuhauser
• @CRMHeidi

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

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

Other topics:

• Black people are under-represented in tech (4% of IT professionals in UK)
• Volunteering/Training/Mentoring
• Microsoft Quiz Team
• Working with Modern Workplace team to setup
• Voice Recognition
• Easy set up for trial and testing
• Phone system direct routing through Azure Communication Services (ACS)
• Infused AI
• Sentiment Analysis
• Scott accidentally unplugged the PBX

Tricia's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/triciasinclair
• @tassyja
• https://triciasinclair.com

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]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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 Piano Music by NaturesEye from Pixabay

In this "Try Not to Laugh" episode, Daryl and Scott have a challenge with Amey Holden and Matt Collins-Jones by telling their best dad jokes to make the rest crack up.

Amey's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/amey-holden
• @AmeyHolden
• https://www.ameyholden.com

Matt's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcollins-jones
• @D365Geek
• 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 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

In this non-technical/jargon-free episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Alison Mulligan about career tips and tricks such as how to get started in Dynamics & Power Platform, how to ask for a raise in a right way and how to change roles within a career.

Other topics:

• Destined moment of three people with metal in their arm
• Alison's American Express/Excel/Access heritage and digital transformation stories
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
• How to get started with a career in Microsoft Business Applications
  • Microsoft Learn (Dynamics 365, Power Platform)
  • Join study groups
  • Take certification exams
  • Bring the Power Platform to where you work
• Importance of mentoring
• German Word of the Day "Kummerspeck"

Alison's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/amulligan365
• @AMulligan365
• https://www.maximus-it.com

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

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk about their sessions and experiences at Summit NA 2021. This is the special episode that was recorded face-to-face at the Community News Desk room in the Community Summit North America venue.

Other topics:

• Controversial opinion about laptop stickers Navigating COVID-19
• Fusion teams
• Is It Worth The Time? comic by xkcd
• Daryl got distracted by a fly and his phone
• Official collective terminology for customer engagement apps
• Tips about snoozing email
• Differences in presenting in-person
• Practice round for try not to laugh episode
• Adding cutout people into PowerPoint slide

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 Bram Colpaert, a good lazy developer based in Belgium, and chat about one of his tools, the Data Transporter. 

Other topics:

• Queen's English and George Doubinski's accent
• Fellow listeners from The UP Podcast
• Star Trek, Lieutenant Commander Data and transporter beam
• Better Connection Management in XrmToolBox over Microsoft Tools
• Scott spends his free time diving into Dataverse GUID generation
• Daryl's magic trick to entertain aliens in Toy Story
• Editor of XrmToolCast, Linn Zaw Win
• The Simpsons episode about Homer repeatedly travels back in time with a toaster
• Made-up words
• Bram only works in the summer
• Dad Jokes

Bram's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcolpaert
• https://github.com/bcolpaert
• https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Colso.Xrm.DataTransporter
• https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/data-transporter.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 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 

Listener Letters!

Please send to [email protected] 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 [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

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

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 [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

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 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

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 [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

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 [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 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 [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 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 [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 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 [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 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: [email protected]
• 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 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

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 [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 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 [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 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 [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 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 [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 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 [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 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: [email protected]

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 [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, 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 [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, 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 [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 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 [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, 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/ 

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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 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, 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

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

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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 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, 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?

   

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/

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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 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, Jonas and Daryl pretend to have been promoted to PMs at Microsoft, in charge of the Power platform.  Each takes turns describing what they would do if they were in charge.

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 spend time with Brandon Kelly from CloudSmith Consulting, who has a new open source extension for VS Code, to share with us. 

CDS for Code has the following features: - Manages Solution Assets - Editor For web Resources - Plugin Development Loop - Templating - Security - Code Generation

Download the project here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CloudSmithConsulting.cds-for-code

Or check out the source here: https://github.com/cloudsmithconsulting/cds-for-code

and reach out to Brandon at

[email protected]

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 invite Sara Lagerquist, MVP and vocal proponent of low code/no code solutions, to give us some of the top tools that she uses.  In this episode Sara shares the following tools:

• Bulk Workflow Execution by Andy Popkin

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/AndyPopkin.BulkWorkflowExecution/

• Attribute Manager by Daryl LaBar

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/DLaB.Xrm.AttributeManager/

• Easy Translator by Tanguy Touzard

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.Translator/

• FetchXML Builder by Jonas Rapp

  • http://fxb.xrmtoolbox.com/

• Related Records Analyzer by Jonas Rapp

  • https://jonasr.app/2018/06/rra-intro/

• User Security Manager by Nishant Rana and Prashant Maurya

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/PKM.XRMToolBox.UserSecurityManager/

• View Layout Replicator by Tanguy Touzard 

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.ViewLayoutReplicator/

• Shuffle Builder and Shuffle Runner by Jonas Rapp and Innofactor

  • https://jonasr.app/2017/04/devops-i/

https://twitter.com/lagerquistsara

https://saralagerquist.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 interview the Matt Barbour, the Principal Platform Architect – Common Data Services for Applications Platform at Microsoft at the Dynamics Community 2019 NA Summit.  In this episode Matt talks through: 

• The PowerApps Command line Utility
• Microsoft's Focus on Command line first
• Updates on the status of the Visual Studio Dev Tool Kit
• New features that have been added to the Data Configuration Migration Tool
• Changes to the CRM/CDS SDK that may break your logins
• The status of the .Net Core SDK

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-barbour-02702b1/

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 interview the James Novak.  James is the maintainer of a slew of winform controls designed for the Xrm Tool Box, as well as the Document Template Manager Plugin.

• Dealing with Impostor Syndrome when sharing your work with the world
• Newlywed life
• Lazy Developers
• How good code can be easily repurposed.
• The "I can make it more extendable rabbit hole".
• James's favorite tools
• James's future tool desires

https://futurezconsulting.com/blog

https://twitter.com/@crmdevjim

https://github.com/jamesnovak/xrmtb.XrmToolBox.Controls

https://github.com/jamesnovak/XrmDocumentTemplateManager

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 of firsts, we have our first return guest, the Xrm Wizard himself Magnus Sørensen (@XrmWizard), and the first time having two guests as Jordi Montaña also joins us as we take a deep dive into automated testing of Xrm/CDS/D365 CE!

• Why use a mocking framework specifically tailored for Xrm
• The biggest reason to do automated testing with plugins/workflows
• How client side service requests testing fits in 
• Deep dives into FakeXrmEasy, XrmMockup, and XrmUnitTest
  • What are the differences
  • How are they similar
  • Which one should you choose

https://twitter.com/@xrmwizard

https://github.com/delegateas/XrmMockup/wiki

https://twitter.com/jordimontana

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordimontana/

https://dynamicsvalue.com

https://github.com/jordimontana82/fake-xrm-easy

https://github.com/daryllabar/XrmUnitTest

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 interview the Xrm Wizard himself, Magnus Sørensen (@XrmWizard) the keeper and maintainer of Delegate A/S's Open Source tools.

• How to register your plugins and plugin steps via fluent based code.
• How to include workflow and view state in your CRM solution Deployments
• Using Fiddler to do your client side dev work.
• Why using Typescript allows you to "Write it, and it just works"
• How to query Crm client side using a strongly typed querying methodology
• How to get all your developers "on the bus"?

https://twitter.com/@xrmwizard

http://delegateas.github.io/

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 interview Danish Naglekar (@DanzMaverick) the creator of the PCF-CustomControlBuilder.

• The features we want to be added
• How to get your tool "out there"
• Jonas does a Pull Request "On Air"
• Daryl mixes up the Guest with a breakfast food.

https://twitter.com/@DanzMaverick

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

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

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 interview Scott Durow (@ScottDurow) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework.

• The Birth of the Ribbon Workbench and it's architecture
• Smart Buttons
• The most common reason why something doesn't show in the Ribbon
• Why the Ribbon Workbench will die
• Why Scott got 200 support requests in a weekend
• All of Scott's knowledge is in the Sparkle Xrm Framework. Use it!
• What Microsoft could do to make Dev's lives easier
• Jonas is waiting for FetchXml to out maneuver SQL
• Scott defines his open source Ethos

https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/

https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow

http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html

https://www.develop1.net/public/rwb/ribbonworkbench.aspx

https://develop1.net/public/post/2017/01/15/Smart-Buttons-in-the-Ribbon-Workbench

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 (brought to you by D365UG), we interview Wael Hamze (@WaelHamze) the creator of multiple CDS/XRM CI frameworks and tools.

• Azure Devops
• Xaml vs PoweShell vs Yaml
• Managed vs unmanaged
• What's required for 100% automation of your ALM

https://twitter.com/@WaelHamze https://www.linkedin.com/in/waelhamze/ https://waelhamze.wordpress.com/ https://github.com/WaelHamze/xrm-ci-framework https://github.com/WaelHamze/dyn365-ce-vsts-tasks https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WaelHamze.xrm-ci-framework-build-tasks https://github.com/devkeydet/dyn365-ce-devops

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 (brought to you by D365UG), we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos) and Gus Gonzalez (@GusGonzalez2 elev8solutions.com), the creators of the Business Process Flow Manager XrmToolBox.

• How bacon/pancakes and complaining gives birth to XTB plugins
• Gus pleads for someone to listen and create a tool for him.
• How long does it take to make an XTB plugin?
• The coolest animated gif of any XTB Plugin!
• XrmToolBox School (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Pd0TO9GnXhGdFwVRb1wfYRGuS4CVmcA)
• XrmToolBox Plugin Report (https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/report/)

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].

Download the XrmToolbox at https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install the Business Process Flow Manager plugins from the plugin store!

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 (brought to you by D365UG), we interview Natraj Yegnaraman (@RajYRaman DreamingInCRM.com), the creator of Level Up and multiple tools in the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed – Level Up - The best tool admins love to hate – Side loading Level Up in Firefox/Edge – Solution History (XTB Plugin) – Solution Installer (XTB Plugin) – Export To Excel (XTB Plugin) – Entity Image Uploader (XTB Plugin) – Recent Items Manager (XTB Plugin) – Lazy Developers – Natraj shuns Dynamics

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].

Download the Level Up from the Chrome Extensions Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/level-up-for-dynamics-crm/bjnkkhimoaclnddigpphpgkfgeggokam , Also download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install Natraj's plugins from the plugin store!

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 (brought to you by D365UG), we interview Andy Popkin (@andypopkin), the creator of multiple tools in the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed – Bulk Delete Tool (XTB plugin) – Bulk Workflow Execution (XTB Plugin) – Record Counter (XTB Plugin) – Future XTB Plugin to convert user views to system views – The debt of onprem in online – Andy's tools + Gus Gonzalez's cojones = Death to multiple online instances – Developers love feedback

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].

Download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install Andy's plugins from the plugin store!

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

This episode was born from a GitHub issue posted by our guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft, on potentially renaming the XrmToolBox to something that is more CDS PowerPlatform friendly.

Topics discussed - Marc's career progression from developer to sales - Marc's favorite tools - How Microsoft's focus on open APIs allows for tools - Marc's perfect world and what we would do to it (Deep Thought quote by Jack Handy)

Link to the GitHub issue that started it all: MscrmTools/XrmToolBox: Issue #833

Links:

• Marc Schweigert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devkeydet/
• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode (brought to you by Mapltyics by Inogic, Daryl steps out of the host seat and into the role of guest to talk about his newest XrmToolBox Plugin, the Visual Studio Solution Accelerator.

Topics discussed - Daryl is a quitter. - What is this plugin? - Setting up Visual Studio solutions for XRM Development - Daryl's Shunning of TLAs - Why the default Region in Visual Studio sucks

Download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install the Visual Studio Solutions Accelerator from the plugin store!

Your hosts: 

• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Today On XrmToolCast, brought you by Mapltyics by Inogic, Daryl and Jonas talk to fellow MVP Jason Lattimer, diving into his background and his wildly successful RESTBuilder tool.

Topics Discussed

• The CRMRESTBuilder (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMRESTBuilder)
• CRMCodeEditor and Daryl's Confusion with a similar XrmToolBox tool (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMCodeEditor)
• The pleathera of Workflow Utilities Jason has made for both Devs and Non-Devs (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-DateTime-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-String-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Numeric-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Note-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Email-Workflow-Utilities)
• Logging assistance for AppInsights in D365 using both JS (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365AppInsights.Js) and C# (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365AppInsights) and Jason's inability to remember it, even though he just spoke on it 3 days ago
• Deprecation of the D365DeveloperExtensions? (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365DeveloperExtensions)

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOS or Android.

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This episode is brought to you by D365UG.

Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Technologies you need to know
• The VisualStudio XTB Template
• PluginBase/PluginControlBase
• Async helper methods
• Setting up Debug Configuration
• XTB interfaces
• Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address

Developer Documentation URL: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/documentation/for-developers/

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic.

Listener Seth T. Bacon asks what is Microsoft's position on third-party developed tools. To answer the question, Daryl and Jonas invited Matt Barbour,  Principal Platform Architect – Common Data Services for Applications Platform (CAP) at Microsoft to answer the question:

• Controls and constraints at the api level
• Will Microsoft make community tools obsolete in the future?
• Will Microsoft offer open sourceable tools?
• How community-developed tools affect Microsoft roadmap.
• Does Microsoft monitor third-party tools?
• The most popular tools within Microsoft
• Early-bound vs. late-bound debate

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOSor Android.

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This is the first episode of our podcast dedicated to the XrmToolBox, the ultimate set of tools for Dynamics 365, with Business Applications MVP's Daryl Labar, Jonas Rapp, and Tanguy Touzard, the creator of the XrmToolBox. This episode is brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG.

• History of the XrmToolBox
• Daryl and Jonas' experience creating tools for the XrmToolBox
• Benefit to Microsoft partners of their employees contributing to the XrmToolBox
• How the XrmToolBox helps lazy developers
• How people use (or misuse) the tools
• The XrmToolBox community
• Technical debt
• Future of the XrmToolBox

Links:

• XrmToolBox: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/ 
• Tanguy Touzard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard/
• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOS or Android.

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