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Visual Studio Community Edition for Dynamics (online) Plugin development

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Last week I developed my first (experimental) Plugin for Dynamics (online) Customer Engagement products, using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition.

Registering my plugin using the PRT (Plugin Registration Tool) was impossible, I was getting a "Something went wrong" error all the time.

Building the same Plugin with Visual Studio 2015 Professional and Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise Edition resolved the problem!

My question is, is this normal? 

Shall we avoid Visual Studio Community Editions for Dynamics CRM Plugin development?

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    Sumeet_MSFT on at

    Hello Yiannis.Manatos,

    Ideally the Visual Studio Community Editions 2019 for Dynamics CRM Plugin development should work.

    Please find the example as they have used for Visual Studio Community Editions 2019 for creating plugin and custom workflow development and it worked.

    https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/dynamics-of-things/posts/dynamics-crm-365-solution-template-for-visual-studio-2019-community-edition

    Please share with the more details or error stack to find why the plugin was not registering using Plugin Registration rule.

    Hope this helps.

    Best regards,

    Sumeet_MSFT

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    Community Member on at

    Hi Sumeet,

    as previously clarified, I have already replaced Community with Corporate Edition (properly licensed under Visual Studio Subscription), and the problem is resolved now. If Community Edition is also good for the purpose as you say, then perhaps there was some issue in my local Community version installation and thank you for clarifying!

    Unfortunately, I did not kept the exact registration error message, but I remember it was something totally generic and not helpful to me, something like "Something went wrong" or "Registration failed" error.

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