Shared Projects Reference not showing in Visual Studio - Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit Template

Hi Everyone,

Today I was working on new project setup on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. We are using Developer Tool Kit, we all know that for some reason we have to stop using ILMerge and start using Shared Project if you want to divide the code like Business Processes and EntityWrapper.

I have created the Project using Dynamics 365 Template (Which comes with Developer Toolkit) and I have created SharedProject in the same solution. When I tried to give the reference, I was not able to see any option to reference of the Shared Project. It was like below.

How it should like is below. I am sure there is something going with the Template whatever we used from Developer Toolkit. 

Here is the way to solve, you just have open the Project file (.csproj) file in notepad add the below line at the end before Project End tag

<Import Project="..\SharedProject1\SharedProject1.projitems" Label="Shared" />

SharedProject1 - Folder of the SharedProject
SharedProject1.projitems - You will see this file in the location where you have created Shared Project.

Hope this helps.

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Happy 365'ing

Gopinath

Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017

Hi Everyone,

Most of the projects we use Developer Toolkit for our ongoing development activities. Recently, I have started working for a project using Visual Studio 2017 and came to know the Developer Tool Kit is not supporting VS 2017. No need to worry about that we have hack for it. Here are the steps to be followed.

1) Download Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2015 from marketplace. Here is the link for the same. 
2) Install 7 Zip on your machine and install it. Link
3) Extract VSIX file using 7 Zip.

4) Open the folder and open "extension.vsixmanifest" in some editor. Preferbaly notepad.

5) Change the version number number from 14.0 (highlighted below) to 15.0 as highlighted below and save the file

6) Make sure the content looks like below after changing.

7) Select all the content in the extracted folder and zip it and give the required name or you can leave it as-is.

8) Rename the extension from .zip to .vsix (To enable extension View --> check File name extensions on the menu)

9) Close all Visual Studio instance and double click on the vsix file created in the step above and click on Install.

10) You will get a warning popup for incompatibility with VS 2017. Click on Yes and Proceed.

11) Once you click on Yes, the installation starts and it will show the below after insalling successfully.

12) Open Visual Studio 2017 and you will see Dynamics 365 in the menu on the New Project screen.

Hope this helps.

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Happy 365'ing

Gopinath

Value Cannot be null - CRM Developer Tool Kit

Hi,

We are setting up a new project in Visual Studio for one of the implementation and installed latest Develper Tool Kit. 

While deploying the Visual Studio was throwing an exception saying Value Cannot be null and when we checked, the error is because of we didn't set up the Path under Tools -> Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit -> Tools Paths.

Surprisingly, even after setting path we are getting the same error. After spending lot of time found the resolution for it.

Build Action for RegisterFile.crmregister was set to Content. Changing it to RegisterPlugin solved the issue.

Hope this helps.

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Happy CRM'ing

Gopinath