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CRM Developer Toolkit vs XrmToolKit

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Posted on by ChrysDW

We are currently on CRM 2016 on-prem with plans to go to D365 on-prem whenever it gets released and we have Visual Studio 2015 (I don't know if/when we will upgrade to 2017).  I want to start developing plugins and I'd like to know which would be the better tool to use for this. Can someone tell me what the differences are between the CRM Developer Toolkit and the XrmToolkit?  I understand that the XrmToolkit comes with a price of $219 per license and the CRM toolkit is a free download. Which do I choose? Does one offer more than the other?

Thanks in advance,

Chrys

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    - VS 2015 will work well for D365 development.

    - You do not need XrmToolkit to develop plugins. CRM Developer toolkit will provide you all the necessary SDK. However, XrmToolkit could make development more productive but it is not necessary.

    Best regards,

    Adhish

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    Thank you Adhish.

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