XrmToolCast

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 han...

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...

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 T...

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 - http...

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% pro...

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...

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 questi...

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 stor...

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...

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 Datav...

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 Ma...

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 sha...

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://marketpl...

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...

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 o...

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_r...

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 ta...

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 interpr...

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:// butenk...

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:...

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 L...

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...

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/Berg...

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...

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.co...