Increasing CRM Developer Productivity

Posted on March 6th, 2010 Mitch Milam  Print No comments

Every now and then I find a solution to a problem that I didn’t know I had.  Yesterday was a perfect example.

I spend most of my day inside Visual Studio either writing C# or JavaScript.  I also use several tools to help me work with CRM.  Usually what happens is I open Windows Explorer, navigate to my Utilities folder and launch whatever tool I need. 

Yesterday it occurred to me that I was wasting my time.

Visual Studio has a feature on the Tools menu called External Tools:

It allows you to add your own tools so that you can launch them without ever leaving Visual Studio.  Simple, I know, but it just never occurred to me to use this feature until I had launched Stunnware Tools for like the one millionth time.

Here is the configuration for Stunnware Tools:

And my very own Export JavaScript utility:

Now I can launch these two tools without ever leaving Visual Studio.  A small productivity enhancement, but an enhancement nonetheless.

Development, Dynamics CRM

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