My AI Foundry is free for You!

2025-09-262025-09-29 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

Yes, it’s true, I share my Azure AI Foundry OpenAI provider for you out there.

Why do I cover the cost for using Azure AI Foundry in FetchXML Builder?

I’m pretty proud that I introduced the AI Chat feature in FetchXML Builder this summer. Like I’ve said many times, “I surely know more than a robot!”, but during the development this summer, I learned quite a lot about AI, and more importantly, I’m impressed by the knowledge it has in the FetchXML area.

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Code library helps AI in XrmToolBox

2025-07-222025-07-23 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

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Setting Autonumber Seed in a Managed Solution in Power Platform

2024-12-052024-12-11 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

Some details in the Power Platform are intentionally excluded from the solutions. Still, most of us developers think they are part of them—unless we read enough about the docs (which is boooring).
One example is Seed for columns that have the type Autonumber.

As far as I know, the seed is not stored in our tables or columns; it is only known in the deep down of the mystery SQL Server. So, how can it even be settable in the Maker Portal?

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Three Big improvements in UML Diagram Generator for Microsoft Dataverse

2024-11-24 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

I send a HUGE thanks to three of my fantastic users for these three new great features!

Jim Novak at Microsoft got me a big pull request to support – not only just PlantUML – but also DBML.
Matt Ritchie at Wesley Mission gave me a tip about supporting packages what I call Groups.
@Warp999 suggested that we may let Themes decide the layout of our Dataverse model.
I only know her/his user at GitHub – please reveal you if you want to!

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New-but-not-new feature

2024-09-192024-09-19 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

Using Bulk Data Updater can be a bit scary… 😱
Which records did I update? 🤔
Which fields did I change? 🫤
What did really happen?? 😬

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Helping Me – Helping You

2024-06-30 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

Starting up a business? Nope.

Well, I have my own small company – we all have one, of course, mostly for fun, and it is clearly dormant. Don’t you have one?

My created tools are free, but definitely not just for fun!

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Scary, dangerous, creepy tools 😱😬

2024-06-092024-06-09 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

…am I hacking your system?

There are a bunch of completely awesome and can’t-live-without tools. Most are created by the community, like me.

These tools can break your system. Completely.

“Are these tools even legal??”

Too often, I’ve heard CTOs and others say that these tools should be stopped! Either by thoroughly educating all users not to use them or simply by blocking these crazy tools on their computers.

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Tools can always be improved

2024-05-162024-05-17 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ 2 Comments

While working on the next release, I realized I had to make this tool look better, nicer, and cleaner.

I was working to add a few new features, so why take on the extra work to deliver a tiny new interface?

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More work ➡️ More features

2024-02-112024-02-12 ~ Jonas Rapp ~ Leave a comment

During the last few months, I’ve been working more than ever (well, most after my little stroke issue three years ago), and more work apparently creates more needs, more features, more improvement – just more!