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Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

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Posted on by Ben Walker 11

The software developer toolkit (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DynamicsCRMPG.MicrosoftDynamicsCRMDeveloperToolkit) has stopped working for us today due to the deprecation of the Regional Discovery Service. We get the error FCB 'EnableRegionalDisco' is disabled when trying to connect to any Dynamics 365 online instances.

I know the product has never made it out of public preview, so I can't expect any official support for this, but if anyone has any ideas as to how to get round this problem, let me know. I've downloaded the latest copy of the DevTools and replaced everything in the Bin and PluginRegistration folders with the latest versions from the DevTools download, but it's made no difference.

Any suggestions gratefully received....

Thanks,

Ben

  • Ben Walker Profile Picture
    Ben Walker 11 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    wonderful news - thanks for sharing Mehdi!

  • Kokulan Profile Picture
    Kokulan 18,052 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Thanks Mehdi for sharing the details above about the Power Platform Tools and my post. I have also added the same content on this forum as well so just adding the link to the community post

    community.dynamics.com/.../dynamics-365-developer-toolkit-reborn-as-power-platform-tools-for-visual-studio-2019

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    meelamri 13,212 User Group Leader on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Hi,

    The new version of the tool has just been released. Software Developer Toolkit is now Power Platform Tools:

    marketplace.visualstudio.com/items

    Docs: docs.microsoft.com/.../devtools-install

    Community Blog: kokulan.blog/.../

  • Ben Walker Profile Picture
    Ben Walker 11 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Hi Ian,

    how's it going? Good to hear from you!

    We made the switch to spkl. It was pretty straightforward.

    We also looked at https://xrmtoolkit.com/ which looks really well featured but went with spkl in the end because:

    • It's free
    • It's open-source
    • It does everything we need to replace the softare developer toolkit
    • Microsoft are working on new tooling for PowerApps which will probably eventually replace the need for either to

    Let us know if you have any questions about spkl - we have a few tips which might help the transition, but won't have time before next week to share these....

    Cheers,

    Ben

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    Ian Holmes 10 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Oh! just noticed this one after posting my last one. looks like spkl is the answer maybe?

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    Ian Holmes 10 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Hi Ben,

    How's it going?  We just got all the apps updated in time for the turn off (after they gave us an extention from a lot of begging)

    But we are in the same position as you regards the CRMDeveloperToolKit..  Did you get anywhere with it?

    Cheers Ian

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    Ben Walker 11 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    We couldn’t get the software developer toolkit working so made the switch to spkl. So far so good, the integration with Visual Studio isn’t as tight, but there are some things about it which I prefer over the developer toolkit. The transition was very easy for us.

    We also looked at the XRMtoolkit (https://xrmtoolkit.com/) which looks like a great product, but we thought we’d try free open-source first and spkl does what we need for now...

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    Antbutcher 387 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Also wondering if anyone has moved over to Sparkle because of this issue and can recommend that or another solution to deploy plugins and web resources? I think we will have to look at other solutions since MS are not actively supporting this.

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    Antbutcher 387 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    did you ever solve your issue Ben.

    Following the instructions I can get as far as choosing my organisation with the global discovery service then it just freezes on this screen.  Its a shame as I like using  this tool as opposed to manually deploying.

    pastedimage1627036690920v1.png

  • Ben Walker Profile Picture
    Ben Walker 11 on at
    RE: Software Developer Toolkit and deprecation of the Regional Discovery service

    Unfortunately I'm still getting the 'could not find ...Tooling.Connector v 2.2.0.0' message, despite having reset all folders and gone through your steps a couple of times.

    pastedimage1623686113424v1.png

    Thanks so much for persevering with this - I think we might have to give up and use another option (like spkl)...

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