Early Bound Generator

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

The "CrmSvcUtil" command-line tool from Microsoft generates early-bound .NET Framework classes that represent the entity data model. But without creating an extension, this tool generates the classes for all tables in the environment and only a few of them are required. To only generate the required components, we need to extend the tool.

To have a lot of options without extending the tool by yourself, you can use this tool to generate the early-bound classes by specifying the options in the graphical interface.

• Tool Information
• Documentation
• Blog mention
• Video Tutorial, Video 2
• Podcast Episode
• Functionalities
• Generate early-bound entity classes for tables (Fig. 1, Pt. 2)
• Generate early-bound entity classes for choices (Fig. 1, Pt. 3)
• Generate early-bound entity classes for actions (Fig. 1, Pt. 4)
• Generate early-bound entity classes for all three of the above (Fig. 1, Pt. 1)
• Generate the file via command-line outside of the XrmToolBox
• Copy the command from the output log window after generating a model (Fig. 1, Pt. 6)
• Complete list of features in the documentation
• Additionally, the tool can
• Save and load the settings file (Fig. 1, Pt. 5)
• Allow the user to specify the settings in 50+ configuration options (Fig. 1, Pt. 7)
• Talk to you... (probably the only XrmToolBox tool with that feature)
• Similar Tools
• Albanian Early Bound
• Early Bound Generator V2
• 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

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.