Editing an existing Plug-In

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Hello everybody,

I am new to writing and registering plugin for Microsoft CRM 2011. I have watched and read many tutorials about creating and registering NEW plugins and feel that I have a general understanding of that. However, I am looking to edit an already deployed plugin. Specifically, I am simply changing a variable. I have have the SDK, Developer Tools, etc. working just fine and have link to my CRM org. I am just wonder how how can extract the code from these dll's and make the change. I appreciate any help that you can provide.

Thanks,

John

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Bruno Lucas 5,421 on at

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RE: Editing an existing Plug-In

Hi John,

If you don't have the source code or if you can't get the source code, the best you can do is to try to extract the dll and decompile using some tool like salamander. The problem is not always the decompilation provides everything. The best approach is try to get the original source code. This apply to custom plugins. modifying original out-of-the-box dlls is unsupported.

www.remotesoft.com/.../protector.html

stackoverflow.com/.../how-to-extract-a-plugin-dll-from-db-crm-2011

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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RE: Editing an existing Plug-In

Hi,

Check this post it will help you to get dll from database and extract it.

http://nishantrana.me/2011/01/17/get-the-plugin-assembly-stored-in-database-in-crm/

Best of luck !!

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Hamzeh Zawahreh 3,674 on at

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RE: Editing an existing Plug-In

hello,

The plugin is stored is stored in the column 'content' as Base64 encoded string (see msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb929072.aspx for reference). Plugins with sourcetype 1 are stored in the database.

see this link:

mytechlifedays.wordpress.com/.../retrieving-the-plugin-dlls-from-ms-crm-dynamics-database

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Hamzeh Zawahreh 3,674 on at

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RE: Editing an existing Plug-In

hi

you can also use this tool

crmpluginextraction.codeplex.com

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RE: Editing an existing Plug-In

Thank you, everybody. I will look into these solutions.

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