Tools for Power Platform Developers / MS CRM D365

Microsoft Power Platform provides various tools for developers to extend platform features and capabilities using code. Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM developers use various software tools to make the day-to-day productivity more and more. Also these are the ways by which developers can customize the complex CM platform.

Below is a list of tools which are being used by dynamics CRM developers in day-to-day project works. These are listed below. Bonus Tool :

1 Software Development Kit (SDK) : https://xrm.tools/

2 Plugin Registration Tool : https://xrm.tools/ or https://xrm.tools/SDK

3 XRM Toolbox : https://xrm.tools/ or https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/

4 Ribbon Workbench

5 Sitemap Editor

6 Metadata Browser

7 OData Query Designer

8 Fetch XML Builder

9 CRMSVCUtil

10    Chrome Extensions : Level Up & Power cane

11   Dataverse development tools.

12   Postman

13   Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio

• WebResources Manager - The tool helps you to create, update, delete, and preview web resources. It also includes support for deploying TypeScript files and Mapping files, allowing client side debugging of TypeScript.

• FetchXML Builder - Provides a UI to compose FetchXML queries, execute, convert to code, update system views etc. More information: Build queries with FetchXML.

• View Layout Replicator - The tool helps you to copy and apply the layout of a particular view to multiple views of the same entity.

• View Designer - The tool helps you view layouts and modify queries using FetchXML Builder.

• Early Bound Generator - The tool helps you to generate Early Bound Entities, Option Sets, or Actions. The tools uses the CrmSvcUtil.exe and displays the command lines that are used to create theses classes.

• Metadata Browser - The tool helps you browse metadata from your Dynamics 365 organization.

• User Settings Utility - The tool helps you to bulk manage personal settings of your Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement users.

• Plugin Trace Viewer - The tool helps you to investigate the plug-in trace log with easy filtering capabilities.

• Export to Microsoft Excel - The tool helps you to export records from a view or FetchXML to Microsoft Excel.

• Attribute Manager - The tool helps you to rename, delete, or change the type of the attribute.

• Iconator - The tool helps you to manage entities.

• Easy Translator - The tool helps you to export and import translation of the content with contextual information.

• Auto Number Manager - Provides a UI to set, update and remove auto number format on new or existing attributes. More information: Create auto-number attributes

• SQL 4 CDS -SQL 4 CDS allows you to use standard SQL syntax to query and manipulate your data and metadata in Dataverse / D365.

Microsoft Power Platform developer documentation:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/get-started

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/developer-tools