What is Xrm Tools

Xrm Tools is a Visual Studio extension that aims to make Power Platform development feel native within Visual Studio. You will get Intellisense support for your Plugins, generate boiler plate code, typed entities and more right from within Visual Studio. You also have full control over the code generation using Scriban templates.

Features

• Define plugins entirely in code using attributes.
• Intellisense for entities, attributes and more based on connected environment.
• Better syntax highlighting and code completion for Power Platform plugins.
• Supporting both traditional (single assembly) and packaged (NuGet) plugins.
• Solution awareness.
• Multi-environment.
• Secure secret management using Windows Credential Management or environment variables.
• Environment scope to solution, project or global level per developer or per team.
• Live code generation for plugins, custom APIs, entities and more directly in Visual Studio.
• One-click plugin registration.
• One-click project registration.
• All code generations are fully customizable using liquid-like templates.
• Supports all versions of CSharp up to v13.0 via PolySharp.
• [NEW] Refactoring actions to automatically write registration attributes for your existing Custom APIs.
• [NEW] Refactoring actions to generate typed request and responses for Power Platform messages.
• [NEW] Auto-completion for message names when creating typed requests and responses.

How to setup for the first time

How to write a plugin

How to register a plugin

Read more about Xrm Tools in its Xrm Tools GitHub repo or check the wiki to learn everything.