Deploying your customization using the plugin registration tool

Once you have a server-side extension implemented, you'll want to deploy it into your Dynamics 365 instance. The Plugin Registration Tool has been around since the early days of Dynamics CRM and is a great tool to master. It helps you deploy your .NET customization to your Dynamics 365 instances, and also helps register Azure Service Bus endpoint, enable profiling, and much more.

In this recipe, we will deploy the plugin implemented earlier in this chapter to a Dynamics 365 online instance using the plugin registration tool.

Getting ready

In order to deploy your server-side customization, you'll first need an existing assembly to deploy. We will leverage the one created in Creating your first plugin earlier in this chapter. This recipe will use the Plugin Registration Tool to register the plugin. The Plugin Registration Tool can be found in the Dynamics 365 SDK under Tools\PluginRegistration.

Note

When deploying sandbox plugins on...