We've built a tool, but I want to make sure this tool adds value for people and building from just my own needs and perspective will only take me so far. It's time to Beta test. This has 2 main advantages, 1, I get new ideas, 2, I understand if my tool will actually work on other peoples machines 😅 I reached out to a couple of friends and they were more than happy to test out the tool. I gave them access to the .dll file and success, the tool actually loaded and worked! I ha

In my last post, I talked about how not knowing something could lead to disaster and for me it did. For the most part, this experiment started as a way to teach me more and see if something like this was possible. But I'm not a proper developer, I don't want to waste someone's time with something silly, however, in the real world, where maybe you are working in a team and you have others around you, you would absolutely work with other developers to fix the code. You would al

There may be an elephant in the room here, but I'm going to start with the optimisation. During my testing for the tool, I noticed a bit of lag when loading different pages. The initial load of flows is fine, because this is the first load of an entire environments flows and metadata, but I noticed when I was going in and out of menus, it seemed like it was reloading the entire list of flows all over again. I popped over to Copilot and asked it about the code and if it was r

In my last couple of posts, I've discussed how an experiment that I did not think would work, created something otherwise impossible for me, an XrmToolBox tool for listing the solutions a flow is included in. But then I started adding more functionality, like sorting and filtering and exporting a CSV file as well. In this post, I talk about adding more functionality, the designer completely breaking and having something I'm pretty happy with. One of the first things after thi

In my previous post, I wrote about how I tried to build a XrmToolBox tool with no C# or plugin experience by Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot and the results were, quite frankly, amazing! Within a few evenings of a couple of hours each, I managed to use it to not just teach me about building XTB tools, but also build a working one. This is where we left off, but as you can see from the top, I am hiding something, because after creating a working tool, I wanted it to go further

I am not a developer. I don't claim to be a developer. I have built things, I have designed things, I have learnt how to code certain things and got better over the years, but I am not someone who lives in an IDE day in and day out. With the rise of Vibe Coding, I wanted to see if I could build something I would have been, otherwise, unable to build. To make matters worse, I wanted to build something extremely complex, with me not even understanding the foundations of what is

I've written before about my architectural pattern for oAuth connection delegated deployments and I've even provided a step by step guide and template flow to help people with the process but it's still quite complicated. Today I am releasing a solution that organisations can use to make connection management easier for delegated deployments where they need to update connections during deployments. I hope that one day this won't be needed and that this gap is filled in the

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