NZ.CrmSvcUtil

Some extensions for the CrmSvcUtil command line tool shipped with the CRM SDK Core Tools package I wrote a while back.

CrmSvcUtil is a handy, extensible and easy to use tool for deriving any kind of artifacts based on CRM organization metadata. While many know it as the standard way for generating early-bound type definitions, I believe that only a few understand and it's inner (extension-) mechanism and comprehend how powerful it can be. At least I did undererstimate it before. ;-)

Note: While the code generators just work as they are, they have a rather "proof of concept" quality/character. That's why I did not respect any ICodeWriterFilterService used by CrmSvcUtil.

Included code generators

NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Text.CodeGenerationService
NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.JavaScript.CodeGenerationService
NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Edm.CodeGenerationService

NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Text.CodeGenerationService

Just prints a textual overview of all metadata items as outline list. Kind of "Hello World!".

NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.JavaScript.CodeGenerationService

Generate some simple ES6 class definitions for all entities and sdk messages.

NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Edm.CodeGenerationService

Generate a EDMX file for all entities including relationships. This EDMX file can then be viewed using the Edm Model Viewer contained in the Entity Framework Tools extension for VS (upt to VS2017).

How to use it

Generate EDMX file

CrmSvcUtil.exe /codegenerationservice:"NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Edm.CodeGenerationService,NZ.CrmSvcUtil" /out:Output.edmx /interactivelogin

Generate JS class files

CrmSvcUtil.exe /codegenerationservice:"NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.JavaScript.CodeGenerationService,NZ.CrmSvcUtil" /out:Output.js /interactivelogin /separatefiles

Generate text outlines

CrmSvcUtil.exe /codegenerationservice:"NZ.CrmSvcUtil.Strategy.Text.CodeGenerationService,NZ.CrmSvcUtil" /out:Output.js /interactivelogin /separatefiles