Open source

Things I built because I needed them

Mostly .NET and Dataverse tooling. One of these has been downloaded 4.6 million times, which still surprises me. The open source is on GitHub. The Spotler Connector is a commercial product rather than a repo, and is marked as such.

Flowline CLI

Dataverse ALM CLI. Structured workflow, git-tracked solutions, fast push to DEV.

Dataverse ALM is mostly undocumented local habit. Everyone has their own export script, their own folder layout, and their own idea of what “the solution is in git” actually means. Mine was a text file of commands I pasted from, and it had been quietly running my ALM for three years.

Flowline CLI is that text file turned into a tool: solutions tracked in git the way code is, a push to DEV that takes one command, and a workflow that survives being handed to someone else.

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OpenTelemetry for Dataverse

ServiceClient instrumentation for OpenTelemetry .NET.

The Dataverse client is a black box. You cannot see how many calls your plugin actually made, which one was slow, or what got retried on the way. So people guess, or wrap the thing in stopwatch code and guess with numbers.

This makes those calls show up as spans in whatever tracing tool the team already runs. No new dashboard, no separate tool to learn. The calls just appear next to everything else the request did.