Build, test, and ship Dataverse & Dynamics 365 — without leaving VS Code.
Solutions, web resources, and plugins. Scaffold, build, deploy, and unit test from
one activity bar. Cross-platform, powered by the Power Platform CLI and .NET SDK.
📖 Documentation & walkthroughs →
- ⚡ One place for everything — solutions, TypeScript web resources, C# plugins,
and Power Pages, all from the Dataverse PowerTools activity bar.
- 🧩 Scaffolds real projects — pick a project type and get a working, source-
controlled project in seconds. Mix types in one repo: add plugin, web-resource
and solution components side by side with Add Component — subfolders inherit the
workspace connection, and every card in the panel targets its own component.
- 🚀 Build & deploy in a click — export/pack/import solutions, bundle and deploy
web resources, build and deploy plugin packages.
- 🧪 Testing built in — Jest + xrm-mock for web resources, DataverseUnitTest for
plugins.
- 🐞 Real debugging — hot-reload your local web-resource bundle inside the live
model-driven app with breakpoints, and profile a plug-in's next run in one click
(Windows, preview) then replay it in VS Code under the debugger — your breakpoints
hit, with the exact server-side context — or keep the replay as a test for CI.
- 💪 Strongly typed — generate
Xrm typings and early-bound classes from your
environment.
- 🖥️ Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, and Linux, on
pac and dotnet.
Project types
| Plugins |
Web Resources |
Solutions |
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Create classes & workflows, register steps with CodeLens, generate early-bound types, build with dotnet, deploy as a plugin package, read plugin trace logs in-editor, profile a plug-in's next run and replay it under the debugger in VS Code (or keep the replay as a CI test), unit test with DataverseUnitTest. |
Write TypeScript, bundle with webpack (or emit one file per web resource), deploy with automatic form-event registration, debug your local bundle live in the real app with hot reload, generate strongly-typed Xrm typings, unit test with Jest + xrm-mock. |
Export, unpack, pack and import solutions with pac — ready for source control and CI/CD. Power Pages sites round-trip with download/upload too. |
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Plus PCF controls (scaffold, build, push, refresh types, run the harness, or hot-reload the
control on a live form), Portals / Power Pages
(guide), and — behind
Preview features — Custom APIs and Azure Functions webhook handlers.
Or start empty — mix components in one repo
Initialise an Empty project (just a connection) and add plugin, web-resource
and solution components side by side with ＋ Add Component — each lands in its
own subfolder, inherits the workspace connection, and gets its own card in the panel.
It's the natural layout for a real solution repo: one connection, many components,
all built and deployed from the same place.
Debug plug-ins in VS Code — preview
Profile a plug-in's real server-side execution, replay it under the debugger so your
breakpoints hit with the exact captured context (no live org), and read plug-in trace logs
rendered right in the editor — all from the plugin card's Debugging block.
Preview features
Some features ship switched off while they finish manual testing. Tick Preview features
at the bottom of the Dataverse PowerTools panel (or set dataverse-powertools.previewFeatures)
to show them:
- Azure Functions — scaffold a Dataverse-aware function, register the webhook and step.
- Plug-in debugging — Profile next run, Download a run, Replay & debug, and the per-step
Profile CodeLens.
- Custom APIs — define, generate handlers and typed clients, deploy, and invoke.
- FetchXML query tools — a CodeLens on the FetchXML already in your C#/TypeScript to run it,
edit it in a generator, or see what's wrong with it (unescaped values, local-time dates compared
against UTC columns, unknown columns).
Everything else is on by default.
Get started in minutes
- Install the prerequisites: .NET SDK, Node.js, and the Power Platform CLI.
- Open a folder and run Dataverse PowerTools: Initialise Project.
- Pick a project type, connect your environment, and start building.
👉 Full getting-started guide
Documentation
Detailed walkthroughs for every feature live in the
wiki:
License & contributing
Free and open source. Issues and contributions are welcome on
GitHub. See
CONTRIBUTING.md.
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