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Vibe Coding an XrmToolbox Tool part 4 - Optimisation and destroying my entire tool
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
Matt Collins-Jones
1 day ago


Vibe coding an XrmToolBox tool part 3 - Add ALL the functionality
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
Matt Collins-Jones
Jan 20


Vibe coding an XrmToolBox Tool part 2 - Now we vibing!
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
Matt Collins-Jones
Jan 12


Can you build an XrmToolBox tool with Zero experience -Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot
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
Matt Collins-Jones
Jan 5


Power Platform Pipelines oAuth Configuration App
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
Matt Collins-Jones
Dec 11, 2025


Power Platform Alerts -Finding the failures
There is a new preview feature just released, called Power Platform Alerts. This new features allows admins to setup alerts for various...
Matt Collins-Jones
Sep 8, 2025


Power Platform Pipelines - Deploy with SPNs with different Connections than deployer
I have written about changing connections with Pipelines , maybe a couple of times , but in my scenarios I approached it from changing...
Matt Collins-Jones
Aug 18, 2025


Default Pipeline Rules - Easier administration across an Organisation
A new feature was announced in the Power Platform Wave 1 2025 release notes, that would enable the access to a default Pipeline via an...
Matt Collins-Jones
May 15, 2025


Change Connections during deployments - Power Platform Pipelines
I've previously blogged about my architecture patterns for delegated deployments for connections using oAuth . This pattern allows you to...
Matt Collins-Jones
Mar 3, 2025


Maker and Admin Deployment Pages Preview - Better Pipeline Visibility
Power Platform Pipelines have been getting lots of updates and new features since their release 2 years ago. Just recently, we got the...
Matt Collins-Jones
Jan 15, 2025
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