This Visual Studio 2008 plug-in radically expands on the Visual Studio tools introduced in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK. The toolkit enables developers and system customizers to take advantage of the tools and knowledge that they already have when engaging in custom development with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
With the toolkit, implementers and managers of Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions can manage schema, engage in form design, update security roles and generate wrapper classes for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. These capabilities will enhance the productivity of organizations, particularly those building and deploying XRM solutions – line of business applications that use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform.
Users of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit can:
View CRM entities using the CRM Explorer
The list of entities is dynamically available from the CRM Explorer within Visual Studio 2008.
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Create and Update CRM Entities
The Toolkit allows developers and system customizers to create new entities and update existing entities from within the CRM Explorer experience.
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Create Wrapper Classes
A key Toolkit feature is the ability to auto-generate wrapper classes for entities. This exposes the CRM entities and their corresponding attributes as classes and properties respectively to enable development of code to interact with the entities.
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Generate Plug-in Code
The CRM Explorer enumerates the available Plug-ins for an entity and generates the code necessary to jumpstart the plug-in development process.
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Integrate the Build and Deploy Process
Build scripts provided with the Toolkit simplify the process of building and deploying a CRM solution. They prepare the environment, obtain and publish the latest customizations, perform code analysis, register CRM Plug-ins, deploy the solution and execute Unit Test cases.
Deploy Across Multiple Servers
The deployment tool assists in deployment and maintenance of Windows installer packages across multiple environments.
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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit is available free of charge from the MSDN Code Galleries at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/E2DevTkt .
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team would like to encourage Toolkit users to submit comments and suggestions for the Toolkit. To initiate or participate in Toolkit discussions, go to the MSDN Code Gallery site and click on the Discussions tab at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/E2DevTkt/Thread/List.aspx .
