Hey Simon,

I'm currently performing these steps to install the Developer Toolkit, but I am currently getting stuck on installing the VSIXInstaller. After tying to run the installer, it will execute briefly then stop with the error VSIXInstaller.exe has stopped working. When debugging, I get 'An unhandled Microsoft .NET Framework exception occurred in VSIXInstaller.exe [7692], further in the debugger it states: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll.

Could you please advise on next steps?

Nice one Simon!! I have got this working with 2015 too and linked back to you. antonyellisdynamicscrm.wordpress.com/.../how-to-get-crm-developer-toolkit-working-with-visual-studio-2013

Hi Simon,

I am following the steps mentioned above to setup CRM Developer toolkit for Visual Studio 2013.

I am able to do the below steps:

1. Create New Project in Visual Studio

2. Connect to Dynamics CRM Server and to the correct Organisation and Solution. (Actually can even browse CRM entities in CRM Explorer)

After that I get the below error which I am not able to fix

“System.Exception: general exception (expection from HRESULT: 0x80131500) at EnvDTE100.Solution4.AddFromTemplate(String FileName, String Destination, String ProjectName, Boolean Exclusive) at Microsoft.CRMDeveloperTools.TemplateExtensions.CRMTemplateExtension.RunFinished()”

Will be helpful if you can help me with this issue please?

Thanks,

Arjun

Hi Simon - thanks for this great post. Wondering if CRM 2013 SDK with VS2013 is compatible for CRM 2016? Thanks!

Hello, Simon!

Thank you for the nice post! Toolkit installed by this instructions works with CRM 2013 and CRM 2015! But, unfortunatelly, it doesn't work properly with the CRM 2016. CRM Configuration tool crashes after selecting Organization name without any errors. Is it possible to get Toolkit work with CRM 2016?

Hi Simon!

As AndyDuncan I experienced the behaviour with the failing Strong name validation. Two times on fresh Win8.1 and Win10 installations.

The oddest thing was, that on the one Installation the tool worked on VS2012 without problems whereas VS2013 wouldnt load the tool.

Regards, Chris

Hi,

sorry for the late of the message. Can anyone confirm the following method, it worked for me:

Step1: Before you proceed, please copy the contents of the installation folder of the toolkit F1= “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Tools\1.0\ItemTemplates” to the location F2 = “C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ItemTemplates” for example.

Step2: Open your CRMpackage project and go to “Tools -> Projects and Solutions” and toggle the “User item template location :” to one of the paths specified in step 1.

That’s it, if the last time you used F1 switch it to F2 (and viceversa).

Step3: Now try to add a NEW item to your Crmpackage project, you will be able to add files from the templates installed with the toolkit.

Hope this work for you.

Happy coding :-)

hi

i have a question about crm toolkit in VS2012.

"i'm having an issue with the developer toolkit and VS 2013 Community. The thing is that I install it following the steps and all seems to work fine. But if I create a CrmPackage and try to add new items i'm getting an empty dialog."

did you find any solution for your problem?? because i have this problem too.

thanks

Hi,

Thank you for the great post.

I'm having an issue with the developer toolkit and VS 2013 Community. The thing is that I install it following the steps and all seems to work fine. But if I create a CrmPackage and try to add new items i'm getting an empty dialog.

Can you confirm it please and if someone can help with a solution.

Thanks.

Hi Simon,

Firstly many thanks for posting this!  It's exactly what I was looking for.  However I'm trying to install the CRM 2011 VS2012 SDK whilst using VS2013.

I've followed all the steps above for the latest version of the CRM 2011 SDK.  Even a reboot and a rebuild of VS2013 as well - it's almost there, but not quite..!

I've almost got this to work, but I keep on getting issues when opening a New or Existing project..  I'm sure I'm missing something, but not sure what!!  Any help (from anyone who has hopefully travelled this path already) would be greatly appreciated.

When opening a New Project I can see and choose the CRM Projects.  Great.  But when I select one and Create, it gives an error

"Error: this template attempted to load component assembly 'Microsoft.CrmDeveloperTools, Version 1.1.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken 'etc'.."

When I try to Open a project (admittedly from VS2010).  It talks about the project types being unsupported, so I guess somewhere it's not quite installed correctly... and to look at the migration report - but it then gives a link which doesn't really tell me very much (or at least not that I can understand!).

If I look under TOOLS in VS2013 it doesn't list the CRM SDK - should it do so?  This is why I suspect that it is not quite installed.

Many thanks in advance!

Phil