Early Bound Generator V2

This XrmToolBox tool allows you to generate early-bound classes for the tables, choices and actions (developed by Daryl LaBar).

The "Power Platform CLI" command-line tool from Microsoft builds a code model for Dataverse APIs and Tables with "pac modelbuilder build" command. The pac modelbuilder is more flexible than CrmSvcUtil and there are a lot of optional parameters (such as generating constants for field names, filtering the list of entities to be built, writing a settings file out, etc.), it would be easier to specify those options in the graphical interface.

To generate the early-bound classes by specifying the options in the graphical interface, you can use this tool with more options available.

• Tool Information
• Documentation
• Configuration Options (for v1)
• Integrating Into Build Pipeline
• Key Differences Between EBGv1 and EBGv2
• Blog mention (for v1)
• Video Tutorial (for v1), Video 2 (for v1)
• Podcast Episode (for v1)
• Functionalities
• Build a code model for Dataverse tables (Fig. 1, Pt. 1)
• Include global choices (Global OptionSets) classes as part of code generation (Fig. 1, Pt. 2)
• Include message (actions, custom APIs) classes as part of code generation  (Fig. 1, Pt. 3)
• Generate the file via the command line outside of the XrmToolBox
• Copy the command from the output log window after generating a model (Fig. 1, Pt. 4)
• Required files need to be copied in the latest PAC directory %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\PowerAppsCli\Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.X.X.X\tools (Read more details at key differences documentation)
• Complete list of features in the documentation
• Additionally, the tool can
• Reset the settings to default (Fig. 1, Pt. 5)
• Restore the settings from the settings file (Fig. 1, Pt. 6)
• Save and load the settings file (Fig. 1, Pt. 7)
• Allow the user to specify the settings in 50+ configuration options
• Talk to you... (2nd XrmToolBox tool with that feature after EBG-v1)
• Similar Tools
• Albanian Early Bound
• Early Bound Generator
• Early Bound Generator for Crm Web Api
• Code Generation Tool (CrmSvcUtil.exe)
• Early-bound Template-based Code Generator
• Latebound Constants Generator

Fig. 1 - Early Bound Generator V2

This is part of the #TooLDR series where I test and review the tools for Power Platform. You can check out the information for the other tools on this page.