Browse the entities in your Dataverse environment directly from the VS Code sidebar — display names alongside logical names, without opening a browser or memorising schema.
When you're writing a plugin, building a query, or configuring a step, you need to know what entities exist. This extension puts that reference right next to your code.
Status: Work in progress — entity listing is available; attribute, relationship, and message browsing is coming soon.
What You Can Do
- Browse all entities in your environment — display names alongside logical names
- Filter by solution — scope the view to only what's inside your active solution
- Toggle managed / unmanaged — hide managed-only components to focus on your customisations
- Add or remove components from a solution — directly from the tree, without opening the browser
Coming Soon
- Expand any entity to see its attributes, relationships, and SDK messages
- Query any entity instantly — right-click to open in the Query Analyzer
- Copy logical name — copy entity or attribute names to clipboard
- Global option sets — browse global option sets and their values
See docs/feature-status.md for the full roadmap.
Getting Started
- Install this extension and Dataverse Tools: Environments
- Connect to an environment using the Environments extension
- The Dataverse Explorer tree shows an Entities section — expand it to start browsing
Browsing the Tree
Entities
► Account (account)
► Contact (contact)
► Opportunity (opportunity)
- The display name is shown prominently; the logical name appears in parentheses
- These are the names you use in code, FetchXML, and SQL queries
- Select an entity to see its details (display name, logical name, ID) in the Details panel
Requirements
This extension is part of the Dataverse Tools suite — a collection of VS Code extensions for Dynamics 365 / Power Platform developers.
Other extensions in the suite:
- Dataverse Tools: Environments — connect and manage environments
- Dataverse Tools: Assemblies — deploy and register plugin assemblies and steps
- Dataverse Tools: Trace Viewer — view and filter plugin trace logs
- Dataverse Tools: FetchXML Builder — build and run FetchXML queries
- Dataverse Tools: Query Analyzer — query Dataverse with SQL
- Dataverse Tools: Workflows — browse and manage process automation
- Dataverse Tools: Web Resources — edit and publish web resources
- Dataverse Tools: Decompiler — read decompiled plugin code from Dataverse
- Dataverse Tools: Audit Viewer — view audit history for Dataverse records
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