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Creating several deployment packages with single build

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Hi all,

there is a article in msdn, in which it explains how to create a package for CRM Package Deployer (msdn.microsoft.com/.../dn688182.aspx)

My question is: is there any option to create several packages with one build? 

for example, i have solution1, solution2, solution3, solution4 in my PkgFolder, I want these` when my project is built, i want to have (for example) 2 packages first one includes solution1, solution2, solution3, and the second one solution2, solution3, solution4

Thank you

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    Bas van de Sande 4,383 on at

    Hi Aram,

    a package deployer project is a visual studio project. Within a visual studio solution you can have as many projects you want. This means that you can add multiple packager projects and let these refer to the same pkgfolder.

    I have one question though... what do you want to achieve with it?

    Bas

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    Hi Bas,

    thanks for replay

    let me describe the whole work - for example I have 10 solutions and 4 different instances, I need to deploy different packages to these 4 instances, each package is combination from these 10 solutions, I need to know do I have to create a different project for each package or it is possible to do everything within one project

    thanks

    Aram

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    Community Member on at

    Looking at the code, I assume this is possible by running several ExportSolutionResponse/Requests.

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    Bas van de Sande Profile Picture
    Bas van de Sande 4,383 on at

    Hi Aram,

    If I were you, I would create one project per package (thus per instance). I believe that's the most easy way to maintain your projecs. All these projects can use the same pkgfolder.

    Bas

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    Community Member on at

    Hi Erik

    Do you think this is will be compatible with creating nuget package for octopack ?

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    Community Member on at

    Hi Bas

    Yes, I think this is the easiest way, can you please advice how to make them use the same pkgfolder

    Aram

  • Bas van de Sande Profile Picture
    Bas van de Sande 4,383 on at

    Hi Aram,

    what you can do is create the projects within the solution.

    Unload a project from the solution; then you can edit the project file (xml) and change the pkgfolder location. Then reload the project.  Repeat this for all projects

    Bas

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    Community Member on at

    but what about ImportConfig.xml file, I think I need different files for each project, in order to create the packages I need

    Aram

  • Bas van de Sande Profile Picture
    Bas van de Sande 4,383 on at

    Hi Aram,

    I think thay might be a good solution.

    what you can do is to check the contents of the importconfig.xml in the first project you create.  If you have entries with the crm solution files you want to import, then you can use that xml in the other projects and change the paths in those files to let them point to a central location containing the crm solution files.

    Please let me know, how this worked out

    Bas

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    Hi Bas

    within the <solution> node there is the list of solutions to be added in the package, when building the project a package is created which includes solutions from that list, like this 

    <solutions>
    <configsolutionfile solutionpackagefilename="SampleSolutionOne_1_0_managed.zip" />
    <configsolutionfile solutionpackagefilename="SampleSolutionTwo_2_0_managed.zip" />
    <configsolutionfile solutionpackagefilename="SampleSolutionThree_3_0_managed.zip" />
</solutions>

    my main problem is to create different packages, but the content of depends on this node, do you thinks i should have different pkgfolders for each project ?

    thanks
    Aram

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