xrmtoolbox

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, 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, 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 (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

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