This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Riccardo Gregori
A few posts ago I introduced Greg.Xrm.Mcp.FormEngineer, my first MCP Server designed to enable conversational, interactive, management of Dataverse forms.
It enabled a few interesting scenarios:
Smart reverse-engineering of Dataverse forms: useful whenever you have to document a pre-existing application, or jump in a running project and don’t know how to start changing stuff
Smart form insights: analyzing the form structure, it can provide useful recommendations to improve the user experience.
Form Manipulation: with it, you can simply ask your favorite AI client “Add a section called AAA with all the marketing fields into tab BBB”, or “put meaningful, context-specific icons near the tab names for each tab of form XXX”, or again “Update the main form of table A in order to replicate a layout similar to the one of table B”
Playing with it, as usual I started been hungry with features…
…Why just be tied to forms? Why can’t we just play around with Apps, Sitemaps, and even Views?
That’s why FormEngineer, like a Pokemon, evolved into AppMaker!
The new version of my MCP server is now capable of:
- Creating a Model Driven App from scratch
- Manipulate the sitemap of an existing app
- Add/remove app components
- Analyze and document the structure of apps
- Create new views and/or update existing views
- Rename a view
- Analyze and document the structure of views
- …plus all the other features already available in FormEngineer.
It can be installed as a dotnet tool:
dotnet tool install --global Greg.Xrm.Mcp.AppMaker
Then configured into VSCode or Claude Desktop via:
VSCode (.vscode/mcp.json snippet)
{
"servers": {
"AppMaker": {
"command": "Greg.Xrm.Mcp.AppMaker",
"args": [
"--dataverseUrl",
"https://yourorg.crm.dynamics.com"
],
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
}
}
}
Claude Desktop (config fragment)
{
"mcpServers": {
"AppMaker": {
"command": "Greg.Xrm.Mcp.AppMaker",
"args": [
"--dataverseUrl",
"https://yourorg.crm.dynamics.com"
],
}
}
}
How can I use it?
I’m creating a series of YouTube Videos showcasing the capabilities of AppMaker MCP Server, in conjunction with PAC CLI and PACX. You can see them here:
https://www.youtube.com/neronotte
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Riccardo Gregori