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-t…

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 episo…

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 Too…

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 - @ChrisPiaseck…

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 edito…

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 ab…

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 Rollback…

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 Dary…

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.lin…

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 …

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 cre…

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 cl…

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 Mode…

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 mat…

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…

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 Renami…

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 Depende…

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 backg…

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 …

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 e…

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 Mi…

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 peop…

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 ad…

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 a…

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?…

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…

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, …

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…

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 brows…

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 Support…

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 assig…

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 -…

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 …

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 Tar…

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 P…

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 t…

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? Unopinionat…

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 t…

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…

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 …

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 som…

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 …

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 Co…

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 …

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 …

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 h…

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 ar…

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 suggestio…

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 …

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…