Early-bound Template-based Code Generator

This XrmToolBox tool allows you to generate early-bound entity classes only for the selected columns or relationships of the selected tables using a customisable T4 Template (developed by Ahmed Elsawalhy).

The "CrmSvcUtil" 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 even if only a few of them are required. It also produces SDK-specific properties, like EntityReference and OptionSetValue, which requires a tiny bit of extra work to map to a .NET value-type and primitive types.

To generate only what’s needed and replace the SDK types with .NET types, you can use this tool to customise the way the code is generated using the T4 template.

• Tool Information
• Documentation
• Quick Guide
• Functionalities
• Generate early-bound classes code file (Fig. 4)
• Generate only what's needed
• Select the required tables (Fig. 1)
• Open Select Entities page (Fig. 1, Pt. 1)
• Load the list of tables (Fig. 1, Pt. 2)
• Filter the tables by logical name (Fig. 1, Pt. 4)
• Filter the tables by display name (Fig. 1, Pt. 3)
• Select the tables (Fig. 1, Pt. 5)
• Override table name (Fig. 1, Pt. 1, 7)
• Select items to be generated (Fig. 1, Pt. 8)
• Select bound actions to be generated (Fig. 1, Pt. 9)
• Select unbound actions to be generated (Fig. 3, Pt. 2)
• Select the required table components (columns, relationships) (Fig. 2)
• Open table details page by double-clicking on the table (Fig. 1, Pt. 6)
• Select the columns (Fig. 2, Pt. 2)
• Filter the columns by logical name (Fig. 2, Pt. 1)
• Override column name (Fig. 2, Pt. 3)
• Select the relationships (Fig. 2, Pt. 5, 6, 7)
• Filter the relationships by schema name (Fig. 2, Pt. 4)
• Generate code using the T4 template (Fig. 4)
• Open Template page (Fig. 4, Pt. 1)
• Reset the Template to the default template (Fig. 4, Pt. 2)
• Specify the namespace for the code file (Fig. 4, Pt. 4)
• Edit the template (Fig. 4, Pt. 6)
• Save the T4 template as .tt file (Fig. 4, Pt. 5)
• Generate code file (Fig. 4, Pt. 3)
• Save the generated .cs code file (Fig. 4, Pt. 7)
• Complete list of features in the documentation
• Additionally, the tool can
• Allow setting the global options (Fig. 3, Pt. 1)
• Save the table/columns selections and global options as a settings .json file (Fig. 3, Pt. 3)
• Clear the cache (Fig. 3, Pt. 4)
• Similar Tools
• Code Generation Tool (CrmSvcUtil.exe)
• Early Bound Generator
• Early Bound Generator for Crm Web Api
• Early-bound Template-based Code Generator
• Latebound Constants Generator

Fig. 1 - Select Tables to be Generated

Fig. 2 - Select Columns and Relationships to be Generated

Fig. 3 - Global Options

Fig. 4 - T4 Template and Generated Code

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.