Continuing the series about useful tools for D365FO developers I would like to present a set of Visual Studio add-ins speed up common development tasks - TRUDUtils, made by Denis Trunin. In this post I will provide installation guide and my favorite features.
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Close Visual Studio and then download and run the following PowerShell script. It will download the latest version of the add-ins from GitHub into C:\Temp\TRUDUtils and run the installer. Stating Visual Studio you can verify that the installation completed successfully by checking Dynamics 365 add-ins menu:
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The tool can be found in Dynamics 365 add-ins menu and is especially useful for prototyping. It helps you create do all the ground work of creating a new table in one click. It creates a new EDT for a key field, creates a table with it populating the default properties, adds field group and find method and optionally creates an Simple list form with menu item and privileges:
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A popular form pattern is a Simple List and Details, which also requires a lot of repetitive work. Well, not anymore - with form builder, accessible from the Add-ins menu after a right click on a table element, you can specify the list of tab labels, grid and header field groups and then receive almost complete form, along with the menu item and privileges:
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Clicking Dynamics 365 -> Add-ins -> DataContract class builder allows you to create a complete SysOperation data contract, along with the parm methods, field group and mandatory attributes from a list of fields. It also allows to generate report data provider (DP) and SysOperation controller, which you may not actually need:
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Full description and source code for this awesome tool are available in this github repository.