XrmToolCast: Recent Episodes
Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp
The podcast dedicated to tools available for the Microsoft Business Applications Platform. Hosted by Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp.
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Andrew Butenko, about his foray into Canvas Apps, and hist resultant Canvas App Watch PCF.
Some of the highlights:
- Late to the Canvas Apps Party
- Inifite Loop Bug?
- Software testers are crazy
- Thinking about Binding/Observables in Canvas Apps
- Konomi Code and IDDQD
- Games and Ads
- Next project: Using PowerFx to control JS
- The Back in my Day Geek out Episode
- Canvas App Watch PCF
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
- Canvas App Watch: https://butenko.pro/2024/03/31/canvas-apps-watch-pcf-component/
- 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Episode 119 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott delve into the Power Apps Test Engine with Grant Archibald, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighting the strategic importance of automated testing in enhancing application reliability and efficiency.
Some of the highlights:
- Grant’s Unit Testing Elevator Pitch
- The Boulder Testing Analogy
- Power Apps Test Studio vs Power Apps Test Engine
- PowerFx playground directly in the browser
- Web Assembly
- When will it be available?
Grant's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantarchibald/
- X: https://x.com/garchibald
Links:
- Mastering Automated Testing in Power Platform: From Unit Tests to CI/CD Integration - YouTube
- Test Studio - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn
- Power Apps Test Engine :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Learning Playground :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Playwright vs Power Apps Test Engine :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Test Engine and Power Fx :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Ring Deployment Model :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Getting Started Business Roles :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Getting Started Architects :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Getting Started Technical Users :: PowerApps Test Engine
- Introducing the plan designer in Power Apps (preview) - Microsoft Power Platform Blog
- WebAssembly
- WebAssembly | MDN
- Grant-Archibald-MS/dotnetwasm
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
Happy New Year from the XrmToolCast team! In this episode 118, Daryl and Scott sit down with Rick Wilson, former MVP and now a Microsoft employee, to discuss his innovative PCF calendar control. This versatile control works seamlessly with both Model-Driven and Canvas apps, offering greater customisation than the standard options available out-of-the-box.
Some of the highlights:
- Reverse Homework
- Pro Code Always be updating
- Differences in PCF for Model vs Canvas Apps
- Scott is a Mayan Calander User
- Loading data in Canvas vs Model
- AI Tool Aider
- GitHub Editor
Rick's Info:
- Blog: https://www.richardawilson.com
- LinkedIn: rickawilson
- YouTube: @richarda.wilson3696
- Github: rwilson504
PCF Calendar Control:
- GitHub Repo - https://github.com/rwilson504/PCFControls
- PCF Gallery - https://pcf.gallery/calendar-control
- Intro Video - https://youtu.be/dBtqsAKt78c
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Episode 117 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft MVP David Rivard about his newest tool, Plugin Identity Manager which is an XrmToolBox tool to create, update and assign managed identity records to Dataverse plugin assemblies. If you're unsure what managed plugin identities are, why you need them, or how they're used, this episode is a must-listen! And if you've already created one yourself, tune in to learn how the tool can simplify your workflow and make your life easier.
Some of the highlights:
- Scott lives in a place that is not an island
- Managed Identities
- David UIs all the Postman Calls
- Why credentials are bad
- Identity managed journey
- Sign plugin with a certificate
- This creates a thumbprint
- This is what is used for federated credentials to authenticate to the Azure Resource
- Create Managed Identities in Azure
- Give the Identity Azure Roles to resources
- Create a Managed Identity record in Dataverse and assign to a plugin
- Scott explains all the problems that exist
- Environment variables for Azure Key Vault secrets
David's Info:
- Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/
- LinkedIn: davidrivard
- Twitter: @david_rivard
- Bluesky: @drivard.bsky.social
Links:
- Blog Post: How to Secure a Dataverse Plug-in with Managed Identity using Plugin Identity Manager for XrmToolBox
- GitHub Repo: https://github.com/drivardxrm/Driv.XTB.PluginIdentityManager
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Episode 116 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott dive into Power Apps Tools with guests Leonardo and Rudimar. They explore the community-driven "clipboard" packed with YAML snippets, SVG-to-FX converters, Power Fx functions, icons, and more—all aimed at boosting canvas app development.
Some of the highlights:
- Capybaras
- Backstory of Power Apps Tools
- When your tools become your weekend projects
- Power of open source software
- Earliest show hzomework ever assigned
- Scott wants to be made into a Capybara
- Daryl discovers Electric vehicles
Leonardo's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardorrusso
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leo_Russo
Rudimar's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudimar
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@powerrudy
Links:
- Power Apps Tools: https://powerappstools.fly.dev
- Capybara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 chat with Chris Piasecki, recaping the MS 2024 Power Platform Community Conference in Vegas.
Some of the highlights:
- Chris Freezes
- Southwest likes scaring Daryl into thinking he is late for his flight.
- Dad joke episode call back
- https://github.com/scottdurow/magical-mystery-tour
Chris's Info:
- Twitter - @ChrisPiasecki89
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-piasecki
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 114 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk Microsoft MVP Ivan Ficko about his newest tool, Power Roles!
Some of the highlights:
- MCU
- Power Roles
- Dynamics BC Origin
- Sniffs Network Traffic, determining the rights required
- Will it work in Canvas Apps?
- Scott
- Sniffing anything in my book is great!"
- "It doesn't suck, it sniffs.
- New Role editor and burning 8-bit trees
- Ivan recreates his blog from scratch
Ivan's Info:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DynamicsNinja
- GitHub: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja
- Blog: https://dynamicsninja.blog
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanficko
- Email: ivan.ficko@outlook.com
Links:
- PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf
- Flow Execution History: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FlowExecutionHistory
- Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder
- Fast Record Counter: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FastRecordCounter
- In-App Notification Builder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/InAppNotificationBuilder
- Advanced App Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/AdvancedAppManager
- Marketing Custom Channel Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/MarketingCustomChannelManager
- Power Roles https://bit.ly/power-roles
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 112 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk Microsoft MVP Michael Ochs about his newest toll the Power Platform CLIx and the latest updates to his Universal Search tool!
Some of the highlights:
- Earliest Episode for homework
- Power Platform CLIx
- Wrapper around the PAC CLI
- Unit Tests help get your mind in the flow
- Universal Search
- Added ability to search entire Solution Zip, and Unzips Canvas Apps
- Decompiles plugin libraries and searches the decompiled code
- What drives developers to just dive into code.
- Starting an ALM Practice
Mike's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefactorial/
- X Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeFactorial
- Blog: https://mikefactorial.com/blog/
Links:
- Power Platform CLIx: A New XrmToolBox Tool for Power Platform Command Line Functions – Mike!'s Blog (mikefactorial.com)
- Universal Search for Solution Source Files – Mike!'s Blog (mikefactorial.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 111 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Anthony Sheehi, a Product Manager at Microsoft about the changes coming down the "pipe" for Power Platform Pipelines, Pipelines For All.
Some of the highlights:
- What Type of pipeline is Pipelines for all?
- Custom Host
- Platform Host
- Details as to the rights and ownership of importing
- Rollbacking solution
- Governing Multiple Pipelines
- The architecture of Pipelines
- Scott gives homework
Anthoy's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonysheehi/
Links:
- Power Platform Pipelines for all: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/pipelines-for-all-public-preview-easily-set-up-pipelines-in-power-platform/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 110 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Ulrikke Akerbæk, a fellow BizApps MVP and Cohost of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast about her experiences working with Power Pages.
Some of the highlights:
- Encountering with one of the listeners at the Canadian Power Platform Summit
- Ulrikke's learning journey of Power Pages
- A tip from Daryl about setting all privileges of a table in the classic security role editor
- Learning tips and tricks through experience
- Power Pages is the most pro-code part of the platform
- Properly prompting Power Pages Co-pilot
- Power Pages Co-pilot failures
- Managing CSS - SASS
- Using VS Code for the Web
- Identify oneself as a low-code or pro developer
- European Power Platform Conference
Ulrikke's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrikke
- X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/UlrikkeAkerbk
- Blog: https://ulrikke.akerbak.com
Links:
- European Power Platform Conference: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-power-platform-conference
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Andrew Vogel about his Microsoft Xrm Devops Data Tool
Some of the highlights:
- A fully caffeinated Scott
- Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data
- Configuration Data Migration Tool
- Package Deployer
- Extreme Programming
- Test Driven Development
- 100% code coverage
- Playwright
- RegX101
Andrew's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewvogel7
- GitHub: https://github.com/abvogel
- Microsoft.Xrm.Devops.Data repo: https://github.com/abvogel/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk amongst themselves, diving into Scott's time serving as a judge at ACDC, the Canadian Power Platform Summit, and Daryl's new IOC framework. Daryl also withholds and then re-releases his love for Scott, and Scott confesses his inner most TypeScript/C# brain farts.
Links:
- Daryl's IOC Wiki
- Canadian Power Platform Summit
- ACDC: Artic Cloud Developer Challenge
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Riccardo Gregori about PACX command line utility belt for Dataverse and his other XrmToolBox tools.
Some of the highlights:
- Scott Partying at Disney/Universal Studios
- PACX
- Lazy Italian Developers
- Automatically generate documentation at compile time
- Daryl and Scott give Ricardo homework
- Polymorphic lookup creation command
- XrmToolBox Tools
- _n.ConstantsExtractor
- _n.EnvironmentComparer
- _n.EnvironmentSolutionsComparer
- _n.ModernThemeBuilder
- _n.SolutionManager
- Generate Wiki Style Documentation for Dataverse Tables
- Please submit PRs for the PACX
Riccardo's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardogregori
- GitHub: https://github.com/neronotte
- PACX repo: https://github.com/neronotte/Greg.Xrm.Command
- XrmToolBox Tools repo: https://github.com/neronotte/Greg.Xrm
- Tool Reviews
- https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/nenvironmentcomparer.html
- https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/nenvironmentssolutioncomparer.html
- https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/nsolutionmanager.html
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Erik Donker about ethical hacking and his tool, PrettifyMyWebApi for Microsoft Dataverse.
Some of the highlights:
- Ethical Hacking
- Security doing Custom Pro Dev vs Low Code
- Scotts as a Service
- PrettifyMyWebApi for Microsoft Dataverse
- See all attributes
- Edit attributes
- Quickly update actions or variables of cloud flows
Erik's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-donker-50a887bb
- @kire_devs_hacks
- GitHub: https://github.com/kiredevsandhacks
- PrettifyMyWebApi for Microsoft Dataverse: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prettifymywebapi-for-micr/pcgbnpkpijlcjeleijaaahlonafdlfno/related?utm_source=xrmtc
- Video: https://youtu.be/dDXrg2Qi6Kc
- Quickly editing cloud flow definition: https://youtu.be/FM1MVLqB7Pc
- GotDibbs Toolbox for Dynamics 365/CRM: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gotdibbs-toolbox-for-dyna/ajhcbjjgonogiifldoofdeonjclcehkh
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 105 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Sara Laqerquist, a fellow BizApps MVP about her experiences building modern apps using the Creator Kit.
Some of the highlights:
- Sara can't grow a mustache for ACDC.
- We get by with a little help from our friends.
- Jonas taught Sara what to do, then told her not to do it!
- Are the Fluent 2 Modern Controls competing with the Fluent 1 controls?
- Being frustrated with model driven apps and solving with custom pages.
- When do you use choose custom pages over sticking with OOB functionality?
- Everything creates technique debt!
- Darly gives everyone tape dispensers!
- Benedikt Bergmann will find a way!
Sara's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralagerquist/
- X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/lagerquistsara
- Blog: https://saralagerquist.com/
Links:
- Fluent 2 Design System - https://fluent2.microsoft.design/
- Creator Kit - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/creator-kit/overview
- Modern Controls in Power Apps - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/controls/modern-controls/overview-modern-controls
- Arctic Cloud Devloper Challenge (ACDC) - https://www.arcticclouddeveloperchallenge.net/
- ColorCloud Conference in Haburg 18-19 April 2024 - https://colorcloud.rocks/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In Episode 104 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Nick Doelman, former BizApps MVP about his experiences being an MVP, moving to Microsoft and then leaving to follow his passion for Power Platform training.
Some of the highlights:
- Scott reveals the not-so-secret news of him moving to work for Microsoft
- Daryl and Scott might have secret matching tattoos
- Nick has had to pay for his first conference
- What it's like transitioning from an MVP to a ‘blue badge’
- Nick provides insider info on the pros and cons of working at Microsoft
- Shout-out to The Power Platform Boost Podcast
Nick’s Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdoelman
- X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/readyxrm
- Blog: https://readyxrm.blog
Power Platform Boost Podcast:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@powerplatformboost
- X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatboost
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Ivan Ficko, fellow BizApps MVP and another ninja 🐱👤, about his new tool, Flow Execution History.
Some of the highlights:
- Shout out to Milo (Scott's Dog)
- The Flow Execution History
- Came about because of beer
- Allows for filtering the flow history to find
- Authenticating to the Power Automate API
- Ninjas for the common good
- Stretch goals
- Flow API wrapper
- Plugin Trace Viewer for Flows
- Are Correlation IDs for plug-in and flow the same for the same event?
- Power Platform Boost Podcast: https://powerplatformboost.buzzsprout.com
- Amount of time to build the tool: Expected vs Actual
- Fudge Episode
- https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/ - The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus!
- How to contribute to the tool authors
- The Ninja broke his arm
- Burger King Crowns
Ivan's Info:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DynamicsNinja
- GitHub: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja
- Blog: https://dynamicsninja.blog
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanficko
- Email: ivan.ficko@outlook.com
Ivan's Tools:
- PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf
- Flow Execution History: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FlowExecutionHistory
- Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder
- Fast Record Counter: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FastRecordCounter
- In-App Notification Builder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/InAppNotificationBuilder
- Advanced App Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/AdvancedAppManager
- Marketing Custom Channel Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/MarketingCustomChannelManager
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 EY Kalman, fellow BizApps MVP, and chat about the default environment.
Some of the highlights:
- Scott's lack of martial arts
- Default environments
- Do's and Don'ts of default environments
- Staying away from SharePoint
- Environment routing
- What is a Managed Env?
- Reporting
- Security restrictions
- ALM pipelines
- Renaming default environments
EY's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecrmninja
- @thecrmninja
- Blog: https://thecrm.ninja
- Blog post on Default Environment - Default Environment - How to handle? » The CRM Ninja
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Asif Siddiqi (Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft) and Marcel Ferreira (Senior Product Manager at Microsoft) about the Dependent Assembly Plug-ins.
Some of the highlights:
- What are Dependent Assembly plug-ins and how it got started
- The complexity of getting this feature ready for GA
- ILMerge vs Dependent Assembly plug-ins
- The problem with using ILMerge for plug-ins
- How to have a shared dependent assembly for multiple plug-ins
- Size limit for plug-in package
- How to register the NuGet package using the Plug-in Registration tool
- Will it be possible to get a null value from the attribute without value in a plug-in image
- Support of Dependent Assembly plug-ins in Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio
- Pro Dev office hours
- Which tools are being used in the community for Power Platform development
- Debugging plug-ins with PRT
Asif's Info
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddiqiaasif
Marcel's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelbf
- @marcel_ferreira
- Pro Dev office hours: https://aka.ms/ProDevOfficeHours
- Share your ideas at Pro Dev team GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-vscode/discussions
- Power Platform Developer Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform
- Power Platform developer tools team e-mail: ppdevtools@microsoft.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
This is the hundredth episode of our podcast dedicated to the XrmToolBox, the ultimate set of tools for Dynamics 365, with Business Applications MVPs Daryl Labar, Scott Durow, Jonas Rapp, and Tanguy Touzard, the creator of the XrmToolBox.
Some of the highlights:
- AI is an answer to everything
- How things have changed since the first episode
- The background story of the latest XrmToolBox UI update
- The process of releasing new versions of XrmToolBox and horror stories
- The backend engine of XrmToolBox powered by the Power Platform
- Daily Active Users (DAU) of XrmToolBox
- What would be the name of XrmToolBox if it was named today
- Upgrade plan of XrmToolBox to .NET Framework 4.8
- Web-based tools inside WinForms XrmToolBox
- It works on my machine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Focus hours for Jonas and Tanguy to work on community tools
- x3 recently released tools by Jonas
- Communication channel for XrmToolBox changes
- Enhancement suggestions for XrmToolBox
Jonas's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen
- @rappen
- Blog: https://jonasr.app
- GitHub: https://github.com/rappen
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JonasRappMVP
- Shuffle Tools: https://jonasr.app/shuffle
Tanguy's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard
- @TanguyTOUZARD
- @XrmToolBox
- Blog: http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/MscrmTools
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Matthew Devaney, fellow BizApps MVP, and chat about Power Apps custom pages, AI and various topics.
Some of the highlights:
- MVP Summit newbie stories
- Matthew's first podcast experience
- What is a custom page for model-driven apps
- When you stick with a model-driven app vs creating a custom page.
- How to make a custom page consistent with a model-drive app.
- Creator Kit Controls vs Modern Controls
- Points vs Pixels
- Chicken Burgers vs Chicken Sandwich
- When to or when not to use AI
- Matthew and Scott share their canvas apps/custom page wishlist
Matthew's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-devaney-6499271b7
- @mattbdevaney
- Blog: https://www.matthewdevaney.com
- Overview of custom pages for model-driven apps : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/model-driven-apps/model-app-page-overview
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
Nathan'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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
Julian'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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 ISVFeedback@microsoft.com.
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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:
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- 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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!
- Tanguy Touzard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard/
- Jonas Rapp - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/
- Scott Durow - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/
- Linn Zaw Win - https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/
- Danish Naglekar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar/
- Guido Preite - https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite/
- Julie Yack - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieyack/
- Gus Gonzalez - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggonzalez2/
- Joel Lindstrom - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joellindstrom/
- 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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:
- Managing Business Settings
- Security Model Tools
- Global Search
- Table (Entity) Search
- Dynamics 365 App for Outlook
- UI Controls
- Model-driven Apps
- Field Mapping
- Business Rules
- 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 Tricia Sinclair about Power Platform School (https://powerplatformschool.com) and Voice Channel for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com. 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Daryl and Scott interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Daryl and Scott interview Matt Beard, fellow MVP and a data nerd, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse Format Changer.
Other topics:
- Beards and Mr. Beard
- Matt reacts to the worst schema names
- What use case is the JSON format?
- Dataverse for Teams leads the way
- Data Validation Tool
- Connector Gallery
- Exclusive announcement of London user group meeting
- Data8 Ltd, the data quality company
- Matt’s Dad Joke
Matt's Info and other links:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbeard7
- @mattybeard
- https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/DataverseFormatChanger
- https://mbeard.co.uk/2021/09/13/introducing-dataverse-format-changer-in-xrmtoolbox
- https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/dataverse-format-changer.html
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Daryl and Scott interview Danish Naglekar, fellow MVP and a previous guest, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse DevTools for VsCode.
Other topics:
- Building VsCode Extensions
- The PCF Builder
- Bearer Tokens
Danish's Info and other links:
- https://twitter.com/@DanzMaverick
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar
- https://github.com/Danz-maveRICK/PCF-CustomControlBuilder
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=danish-naglekar.dataverse-devtools
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow// | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ | @LinnZawWin
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Daryl and Scott interview Daniel Cai, founder of KingswaySoft and a former MVP. We talk through the history of the KingswaySoft SSIS adapter as well as some of the improvements made along the way. Other topics:
- Scott hates mosquitos almost as much as Daryl hates rope swings
- Free shirts are the best shirts
- Daniel's trigger statements
- SOAP vs WebApi
- Tables vs Entities
Daniel's Info and other links:
- Company: KingswaySoft
- LinkedIn: DanielCai
- Twitter: @DanielCai
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
With Scott being on vacation Mike Ochs was nice enough to fill in the co-host seat as we dive into the Albanian Early Bound Tool for the XrmToolBox with Betim Beja. Betim is a developer based in Albanian, who talks about his tools as well as his home country.
Betim's Info and other links:
- Blog: https://xrm.al/
- LinkedIn: BetimBeja
- Twitter: @betimbeja
- GitHub: Albanian-xrm
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsochs/ | @MikeFactorial
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
We've challenged David Rivard in episode 41 to create a tool for Managing Custom APIs . Not only did he accept that challenge and created the Dataverse Custom API Manager, he has also extended it to create another one, the Dataverse Catalog Manager, both of which we dive into on this show.
David's Info and other links:
- Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/
- LinkedIn: davidrivard
- Twitter: @david_rivard
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ | @ScottDurow
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode we talk with Megan V. Walker about her experience with Portals. Megan is an outstanding example of a self described citizen developer, delivering MS Portals with excellence.
Other topics:
- Megan confesses her love of CSS, Daryl admits his disdain
- Scott pictures a Where's Waldo, Daryl Edition
- Megan admits to struggling with both Imposter Syndrome, and self pride.
- Daryl and Megan talk about their brothers
- Megan's portal Christmas wish
Links:
- Franco Musso - Franco Musso – Dynamics 365 Project Manager, Functional Consultant and Business Analyst
- Ulrikke Akerbæk - Ulrikke Akerbæk - Power Apps Portals expert at Skill AS (akerbak.com)
- JS Libraries:
- PDFObject: A JavaScript utility for embedding PDFs
- Data Tables | Table plug-in for jQuery
- FullCalendar - JavaScript Event Calendar
- Filcon.io
Megan V. Walker's Info :
- Blog: https://meganvwalker.com/blog/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/
- Twitter: @MeganVWalker
- The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we talk to Ben Vollmer, former Global Director for Field Service, about his involvement in the bringing down CRM Online for the entire world. It's a true blast from the past as most of it was before Daryl even logged into CRM online, and so long that Scott has forgotten most of it. Other topics:
- When CRM required XBOX
- Where has all of Daryl's code gone?
- Ben's interesting interpretation of bug free software
- Little Bobby Tables (https://xkcd.com/327/)
Ben's Links
- Twitter - @BenVollmer
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benvollmer/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we talk to long time MVP Andrew Butenko who is the creator of multiple extremely useful PCF controls (The most recent being a Clippy PCF control, how awesome is that, Clippy!) We announce that we will be running a contest for the best listener submitted questions, so submit yours today!
Andrew's Links
- Twitter: @a33ik
- YouTube: http://youtube.com/AndrewButenko
- Blog: http://butenko.pro/blog/
- GitHub: http://github.com/AndrewButenko
- Clippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vzKKBEcvM
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriibutenko
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Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we talk to the current maintainer of the Plugin Registration Tool for the XrmToolBox. We talk through the history of the tool and what the future may hold for it as well as:
- Microsoft's announcement of being able to register additional DLLs
- DLL Hell
- The Auto Deployer Tool
- "War" Stories
Imran's Links
- Twitter: @imranakram365
- Email: Imran@Biznamics.com
- LinkedIn: Imranakram1
- Github: ImranAkram
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we talk to brand new baby MVP Mark Carrington, creator of the SQL 4 CDS XTB tool, about his new improvements.
- Scott is Canadian, Eh?
- SQL 4 CDS Safe Guards and Query Optimization
Mark's Links
- Blog - https://markcarrington.dev/
- SQL 4 CDS
https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MarkMpn.SQL4CDS/
https://markcarrington.dev/sql-4-cds/
https://github.com/MarkMpn/Sql4Cds - Twitter - @MarkMpn
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carrington-1499a010/
- Work
https://www.data-8.co.uk/
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=data8&page=1
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk with long time fellow MVP, Guido Preite. Guido is the caretaker of the PCF Gallery as well as a the creator of the Dependent Option Set Manager. Other topics discussed:
- Scott is wearing pants
- StackOverflow rivalries never die
- Guido's former newsletter
- You need to do something until you like it
- Guido's name change refusal
Guido's info and other links:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/crmanswers
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite/
- Blog: https://www.crmanswers.net/
- PCF Gallery: https://pcf.gallery/
- Dependent Option Set Manager: https://crmoptionsets.azurewebsites.net/
Video of Jonas's update: https://youtu.be/gsHb1WPPGwU
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
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: Benedikt@benediktbergmann.eu
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Scott Durow: https://linkedin.com/in/ScottDurow/ @ScottDurow
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Daryl interviews James Novak. James is the maintainer of a slew of WinForm controls designed for the XrmToolBox, as well as the Document Template Manager Plugin. This is a dev heavy episode where the following topics are discussed:
- Shared Projects
- Source Only Nuget Files
- Sharing code in XrmToolBox Projects
- ILMerge/ILRepack
- Pitfalls we ran into
- XrmToolBox.com ratings improvement
- CodeNow
James's Info and other links:
- Blog: https://futurezconsulting.com/blog
- LinkedIn: JamesNovak
- Twitter: @crmdevjim
- https://github.com/jamesnovak/xrmtb.XrmToolBox.Controls
- https://github.com/jamesnovak/XrmDocumentTemplateManager
- https://github.com/gluck/il-repack
- https://github.com/dotnet/ILMerge
- https://github.com/ashlega/TreeCat.XrmToolBox
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
It has been a difficult week this week on the XrmToolCast with Jonas suffering a stroke. Daryl has invited some of Jonas' fellow co-workers and MVPs to talk about what happened, how Jonas is doing now, and how we, the community, can support him.
- Consider Donating to Jonas via http://fetchxmlbuilder.com/donate
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Jonas and Daryl have a friendly talk between themselves, walking through all the new tools they've recently released. There may also be some Dad jokes in the episode, so make sure listen all the way to the end. Tools covered:
- Custom Action Tester
- Custom API Tester
- XrmToolBox Integration Tester
- Portal Entity Permission Manager
- Outlook Timesheet Calculator
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Mike Stall joins us to talk about the work that Microsoft has just publicly released for Canvas Apps in the form of the Power Apps Source File Pack and Unpack Utility. Topics Covered:
- What are the end design goals.
- YAML, Why?
- Checkout the blog post here or visit the GitHub page here
Mike's Info:
- LinkedIn: MikeStall
- Blog: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jmstall/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Dataverse has had custom actions for some time now, and now, a similar new tool is available to Dataverse developer, Custom APIs. We've brought David Rivard on to not only help define what they are, but to talk about his new Dataverse Custom API collection. Other topics covered:
- What's the difference between Custom APIs and Custom Actions?
- What are the current hang-ups with Custom APIs, and what does Jonas want it to be?
- Why APIs are helpful for ISVs
- Jonas and David start collaborating on future tools while on air (one of which became the Custom API Manager for XrmToolBox)
David's Info and other links:
- Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/
- LinkedIn: davidrivard
- Twitter: @david_rivard
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
High quality blogs are always a helpful, and in this episode we speak to the managing editor of Dynamics Chronicles, Lloyd Sebag. It started as a conversation into the XTB tools documented on the site, but dived into much much more!
Check out Dynamics Chronicles website, and the team that brings it to life:
- Stéphan Drouard
- Danny Rodrigues Alves
- Amaury Veron
- Mattias Liloia
- Lorenz Prandini
- Fabian Kalchofner
Matt's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-sebag/
- Twitter: @DynamicsChronic
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Brand new baby MVP Matt Collins-Jones talks about his top 4 tools for creating Power Automate Flows, and the tools that we wish existed.
Be sure to check out Matt's YouTube channel! Lot's of great content!
Tools Discussed:
- FetchXML Builder - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Cinteros.Xrm.FetchXmlBuilder/
- Level Up - Level Up Chrome/Edge Store
- Metadata Browser - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.MetadataBrowser/
- Flow to Visio - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/LinkeD365.FlowToVisio/
Matt's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcollins-jones/
- Twitter: @D365Geek
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattCollinsJones
- Website: https://www.d365geek.co.uk/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Fellow MVP Neil Benson needed some help on a project and decided to use a lifeline and called Daryl and Jonas to ask what tools to use to document a system for a technical assessment. We decided to record the phone call for all to enjoy.
Be sure to check out Neil's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series!
Tools Discussed:
- SnapShot! For Dynamics 365 - https://www.xrmcoaches.com/snapshot/
- Plugin Registration Tool - https://github.com/Innofactor/PluginRegistration
- Attribute Usage Inspector - https://github.com/MscrmTools/MscrmTools.AttributeUsageInspector
- Metadata Document Generator - https://github.com/MscrmTools/MsCrmTools.MetadataDocumentGenerator
- PowerApps Checker - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/use-powerapps-checker
Neil's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilbenson/
- Twitter: @Customery
- Pimp My LinkedIn Profile: Watch Here, Sign up Here
- Website: https://www.customery.com/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Fellow MVP Amey Holden decides to turn the tables and interview us! Be sure to check out Amey's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series!
Topics Discussed:
- What was our first tool?
- 5318008 on our calculators
- What's are favorite tools we didn't create?
- 3d Dancing babies in PowerPoint: https://www.ameyholden.com/articles/i-didnt-know-powerpoint-could-do-that
Amey's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amey-holden/
- Twitter: @AmeyHolden
- Pimp My LinkedIn Profile: Watch Here, Sign up Here
- Blog: https://www.ameyholden.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ | @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ | @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Repeat guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft talks about the (almost released) Power Platform ALM Starter Kit, a tool to help manage and solve all your Power Platform ALM woes!
Topics Discussed:
- Center of Excellence (COE) Starter Kit
- Storing Theme data in CDS
- Issues with naming an advanced tool without making the non-advanced tool sound dumb.
- ALM App-ception, the Chicken and the Egg problem for tools
Marc's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devkeydet/
- Twitter: @devkeydet
- COE Starter Kit: https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit
- Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/ (Contains general guidance docs as well as the CoE Starter Kit docs).
- Theming module Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-theming
- Manuela Pichler Twitter: @ManuelaPichler_
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode we talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker talking about how their introduction to tools for the power platform as well. Other topics:
- Lisa Crosbie explains how she annoyed her company IT department
- Jonas accuses Lisa of Being the Power Platform Jesus
- Megan talks about her Eureka moment with tools in the XTB
- Jonas learns about the Auto-Number Manager
- Daryl describes the Cardinal Rule for developers for naming things
The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/
Lisa Crosbie's Info:
- Blog: https://lisacrosbie.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crosbie/
- Twitter: @LisaMCrosbie
Megan V. Walker's Info :
- Blog: https://meganvwalker.com/blog/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/
- Twitter: @MeganVWalker
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode we interview MVP Hardit Bhatia to talk about his brand new tool, "Power Apps Formula Reference". We dive into the app, why it was created, how it's structured, and how it's intended to be used. We also go off topic in few areas:
- Never let Joel Lindstrom introduce himself first
- Jonas wants more responsive functionality
- Daryl and the rest of Americans have it easy
- Logical names fore the win!
Hardit's Info:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harditbhatia/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepoweraddict
- Forum Profile: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88116
- Blog: https://thepoweraddict.com/blog/
- Email: Hardit.bhatia@thepoweraddict.com
- Power Apps Formula Reference: https://thepoweraddict.com/power-apps-formula-reference/
- Power Apps Formula Reference direct download link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Community-App-Samples/Power-Apps-Formula-Reference/m-p/650191#M595
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
We've invited Julia Simpson, an F&O consultant new to the CRM/CDS world to gain insights on what it's like to be new to the CRM/CDS community, and the tools found within. In this episode:
- Julia describes her first tool experience in the XrmToolBox.
- Julia describes her experience with the CRM/CDS community.
- Daryl still can't introduce a guess properly.
- Jonas is accused of bleeding on his icons.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/Juliaj87/
https://twitter.com/Juliaj87
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode we interview MVPs Gus Gonzalez and Nicholas Hayduk, to talk about their new tool, Power Text! We also discus:
- How 5 year MVPs have been MVPs for nearly a decade!
- Gus's skill at getting others to do his dev dirty work.
- Nick's lack of sales skills.
- Jonas shared an Fetch Xml Builder update!
Nick's Info:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholashayduk/
https://twitter.com/engineered_code
https://www.youtube.com/c/EngineeredCode
https://www.engineeredcode.com/blog
Gus's Info:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhjoi4W_K7sLNpXr9Kqz8w
https://twitter.com/@GusGonzalez2
elev8solutions.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggonzalez2/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode Jonas and Daryl each present their top 10 Tools for CRM/XRM/CDS Developers.
- Jonas teaches Daryl about Win+V
- Jonas declares Sweden the "Home of the Imposter Syndrome"
- Daryl talks about America's love with blowing stuff up
Daryl's Tools
- Notepad++
- Visual Studio/VS Code
- Early Bound Generator
- Attribute Manager
- WebResource Manager
- Visual Studio Solution Accelerator
- Script Finder/Form Libraries Manager
- LinqPad
- Canvas App Packager
- Ditto
Jonas's Tools
- Plugin Trace Viewer for XrmToolBox
- Plugin Registration for XrmToolBox
- CodeMaid for Visual Studio
- FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox
- StackOverflow
- Metadata Browser for XrmToolBox
- Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps
- Latebound Constants Generator for XrmToolBox
- Plugin Auto Deployer for XrmToolBox
- Canvas Code Reuse for XrmToolBox
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we talk to the expert of all things SQL to CDS, Mark Carrington, about the new SQL CDS endpoint and his SQL for CDS XrmToolBox tool.
- Jonas admits to not being able to write Fetch Xml as easily as SQL
- Mark walks through his tool and the differences/advantages between the new SQL CDS endpoint
- All agree that Jonas is "special"
Mark's Links
- Blog - https://markcarrington.dev/
- SQL 4 CDS
https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MarkMpn.SQL4CDS/
https://markcarrington.dev/sql-4-cds/
https://github.com/MarkMpn/Sql4Cds - Twitter - @MarkMpn
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carrington-1499a010/
- Work
https://www.data-8.co.uk/
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=data8&page=1
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.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: ivan.ficko@outlook.com
Ivan's Tools
- PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf
- Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow (@ScottDurow) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss. This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.
- Should projects build their own? How much would it handle?
- Should open source frameworks be used?
- Dangerous of the "Super Framework"
- Faxing requests
- How not to end a Podcast
https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/
https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow
http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow (@ScottDurow) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode.
- Daryl introduces Jonas to Weezer
- Should projects use straight SDK?
- Should projects build their own? How much would it handle?
- Should open source frameworks be used?
- Dangerous of the "Super Framework"
https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/
https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow
http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos, https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier), the creator of the Quick Edit Form, about his new tool.
- Clement explains why he made the Quick Edit Form control, and the learning experience with PCF and Office Fabric UI.
- Download the control here: https://github.com/carfup/PCFControls/releases
- Clement's Blog https://stuffandtacos.azurewebsites.net/2020/04/15/pcf-quick-edit-form/
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Markus Erlandsson invites Daryl and Jonas to discuss early bound development vs late bound development, as both Daryl and Jonas have their own XrmToolBox tools to assist in these areas.
Markus Erlandsson:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuserlandsson/
https://twitter.com/MarkusErlandsso
https://crmrocks.com/
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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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl talk through common tools for getting your technical problems solved, with a specific eye towards canvas apps. We also invite Matt Devaney, a MS forums Appstronaut, to talk through the tools he uses to solve his questions.
- Forums – a Product that ages in reverse, the more you use it, the better it gets
- What old programming language books are used for
- How to get your questions answered
- Tips and Tricks for solving issues in Canvas Apps
Links Collections Cookbook: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Community-App-Samples/Collections-Cookbook-50-Visual-Examples-amp-Code/td-p/437594
Power Platform Forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/
Matt Devaney:
https://twitter.com/mattbdevaney
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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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl walk through Jonas' newest tool for the XrmToolBox, the UML Diagram Generator. We also invite Reece Campbell, a beta user of the tool, to talk through his experience with using it.
- PlantUML and it's features
- Shorten the XrmToolBox to XBox?
- What advantages/disadvantages it has over the Entity Relation Diagram Creator
- Daryl makes plea for free testing
- Would the real D La B please stand up?
Links UML Document Generator: https://jonasr.app/UML
PlantUML: https://plantuml.com/
VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.plantuml
Reece Campbell:
https://ramblingreece.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/ramblingreece
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reececampbell/
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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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we 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
Brandon.Kelly@cloudsmithconsulting.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, 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:
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Bulk Workflow Execution by Andy Popkin
- https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/AndyPopkin.BulkWorkflowExecution/
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Attribute Manager by Daryl LaBar
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https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/DLaB.Xrm.AttributeManager/
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Easy Translator by Tanguy Touzard
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https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.Translator/
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FetchXML Builder by Jonas Rapp
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http://fxb.xrmtoolbox.com/
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Related Records Analyzer by Jonas Rapp
-
https://jonasr.app/2018/06/rra-intro/
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User Security Manager by Nishant Rana and Prashant Maurya
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https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/PKM.XRMToolBox.UserSecurityManager/
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View Layout Replicator by Tanguy Touzard
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https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.ViewLayoutReplicator/
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Shuffle Builder and Shuffle Runner by Jonas Rapp and Innofactor
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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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode, we interview 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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode (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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
Your hosts:
Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar
Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
In this episode (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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
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 cast@xrmtoolbox.com.
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
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Deprecation of the D365DeveloperExtensions? (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365DeveloperExtensions)
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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
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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/
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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