Rename & UI, performance & reliability improvement

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Installers will no longer be attached to releases. Please install at the following links

The windows app is available on the Microsoft Store

• https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/jm-dataverse-toolbelt/XP8LT89GK8T7RF

The visual studio extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace

• 2022 -https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JosephMcGregor-Macdonald.JosephMXrmVsix2022
• 2017-2019 - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JosephMcGregor-Macdonald.JosephMXrmVsix

While this software is still open source and available free of charge, If you use this software and are finding value in it please show support by donating and giving positive reviews on the links above
https://github.com/sponsors/josephmcmac?frequency=one-time

Main changes for this release are

• Renaming app and visual studio extension as "JM Dataverse Toolbelt"
• Changes to form layouts
• Performance improvements
• Reliability improvements
• Fix several UI freezing scenarios
• Improve progress information displayed to user
• Add solution upgrades to all features which import solutions

The complete list of changes are listed below

• Picklist field value for related entity field not displaying in grid view #321
• Optimise grid queries and exports #322
• Rename app -> JM Dataverse Toolbelt #323
• Rename VSIX -> JM Dataverse Toolbelt Dev Kit #324
• Add image and title to header section on VSIX forms #325
• Add image and adjust layout of app header section #326
• Change layout of fields and buttons in forms #327
• Change dialogs to loading icon with message instead of progress bar #328
• Remove release check module #329
• Add import solution feature to toolbelt app #330
• Add solution upgrade option to solution deployment features #331
• Add source and target solution details to solution import features #332
• Add records for import counts to deploy package form #333
• Add version number validation to solution transfer form #334
• App freezes while loading metadata for "Query & Update Data" feature #335
• Improve loading of metadata #336
• Optimise loading of forms #337
• Optimise Deploy Assembly Form Loading #338

If you have saved settings for the windows desktop app which you want to retain in this new version, you will need to rename the folder

• C:\Users[username]\JosephM Xrm\JosephM Dataverse Dev App
  to
• C:\Users[username]\JosephM Xrm\JM Dataverse Toolbelt

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