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Tools

This article will give you all tools which gives more productivity for developers of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. here is the list.

1. Ribbon Workbench

The Ribbon Workbench has been the standard for editing the Dynamics CRM Ribbon since CRM2011. With the release of the new non-Silverlight version, customizing the Dynamics 365 & Dynamics CRM Command Bar and Ribbon has just got even easier! By installing the Ribbon Workbench you’ll quickly be performing customizations that were previously only possible by time consuming and error-prone manual editing of RibbonDiff Xml.

2. XRM Toolbox

XrmToolBox is a Windows application that connects to Microsoft Dataverse. Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) applications, like Dynamics 365 for Sales, Service or Talent also use Microsoft Dataverse as their foundational data service. XrmToolBox, provides tools to ease customization, configuration and operation tasks for anything built on Microsoft Dataverse, including Dynamics 365 CE (formerly CRM) and model-driven PowerApps. It is shipped with more than 30 tools to make administration, customization or configuration tasks easier and less time consuming. And more than 100 other tools are available in the Tool Library.

3. Online FetchXML Formatters

Developers in Dynamics 365 many times download FetchXML from advanced find and format the raw fetchxml for JavaScript and C# codes. TO save your time you can use the online toll which will give the formatted string of fetchxml for JS and C# so that you can use it.

4. Ready-made PCF controls

Download free PCF controls that you can use in your project and source code which is open source. PCF Gallery is a website which hosts various PCF controls which are free to use and modify.

5. Ready-made PCF controls

Download free PCF controls that you can use in your project and source code which is open source. PCF Gallery is a website which hosts various PCF controls which are free to use and modify.

6. CRM REST Builder

This tools helps you create JavaScript snippets easily to create REST codes or XRM Web API codes. CRM REST Builder v2.6.0.0 for CRM 2015/2016 & D365 CE (7.0+)

  • Added 9.x support
  • Added Xrm.WebApi support
  • Better support for Action/Function parameters
  • Fixed a bunch of bugs
  • Other usability enhancements
NuGet PackageDescription
Code Generation Tool Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreToolsGenerates early-bound .NET Framework classes that represent the table data model that is used by model-driven apps.
Configuration Migration Tool Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.ConfigurationMigration.WpfTool that is used to move configuration data across Dataverse environments.
Package Deployer Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.PackageDeployment.WPFTool that enables administrators to deploy packages in a Dataverse environment. Developers combine solution assets and custom code in a package to be deployed by Package Deployer. Independent software vendors (ISVs) must use the same package format when preparing their solutions for publishing on AppSource.
PluginRegistrationTool Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.PluginRegistrationToolTool that is used to register custom code plug-in assemblies and steps in a Dataverse environment.
Solution Packager Tool Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreToolsTool that can disassemble Dataverse solutions into multiple XML files to be managed by a source control system. It can also be used to rebuild a Dataverse solution from the source XML files.

The following is a selected list of community tools distributed via the XrmToolBox that you can use with Dataverse.

ToolDescription
Attribute ManagerUsed to rename/delete/or change the type of the column.
Early Bound GeneratorGenerates Early Bound Tables/Choices/Actions. Uses CrmSvcUtil from the SDK, and shows command line used to create the classes.
Export to ExcelEasily export records from the selected view/fetchxml to Excel.
FetchXML BuilderCreate and test FetchXml Queries
Metadata BrowserBrowse metadata from your Dataverse environment
Plugin Trace ViewerInvestigate the Plug-in Trace Log with easy filtering and display possibilities
User Settings UtilityManage users personal settings in bulk

Here is another tool, Chromium Metadata Browser, that lets you browse metadata such as tables, columns, relationships, choices of Dataverse environments. It works with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome browsers.

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