Error when registering plugin using VS2012 using CRM Toolkit (Error registering plugins and/or workldows)

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My colleague created a new plugin for a CRM entity (Marketing List). She added a new project in VS with the plugin code. I now tried to debug this code on my local VM.

What I did so far is -

1. Did a get on TFS on VM

2. Updated my local CRM database (with a DB clone of our master dev organization)

3. When I now try to deploy the CRM solution using the deploy functionality in VS I get following error message:

Error 102 Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Assembly bin\Debug\SGAM.MarketingListPlugins.dll could not be found. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\CRM\Microsoft.CrmDeveloperTools.12.targets 176 4 SGAM

But I'm pretty sure that SGAM.MarketingListPlugins.dll does exists in debug folder. See attached screenshot for more information.

What am I missing?

Thanks
Alen

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Royal King 27,686 on at

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It looks crm toolkit is not copying plugin assembly to SGM ( crmPackage project) bin folder. Try to manually copy your plugin assembly to SGM(crmpackage project) bin folder and try to deploy it . If it works you can add post build script to copy plugin dll to this folder whenever you build solution.

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Hi Chitra

Many thanks for your quick reply. It looks like there is no crmPackage project bin folder att all in our Visual Studio solution?!

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Alen

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Whichever project has file "RegisterFile.crmregister" that project is a crmPackage project.

It seems to be SGAM in your case based on the screen shot and error message.Copy your plugin assembly to bin folder of this project and try to deploy the solution.

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Hi Chitrarasan

Many thanks, this helped. I can now deploy the new plugin as well!

Where/how post build script to copy plugin dll to this folder whenever you build solution.

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Alen

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You find more about post build event to copy dll in below post

msdn.microsoft.com/.../c02as0cs.aspx

copy /Y "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)lib\$(ProjectName).dll"

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Hi Chitrarasan

Many thanks for your help - may I ask you a follow up question:

I'm still struggling to understand how these things hang toghether.

What happened now is:

1. I changed the code of plugin which is part of the project SGAM.MarketingListPlugins

2. I built and deployed the entire SGAM solution

3. I wanted to test/debug my code change. But it looks like my change did not make it into CRM

4. When I check the bin/debug folder of the SGAM package all .dll and .pdb. files have been updated. They have an updated timestamp from today. But only the one plugin I changed SGAM.MarketingListPlugins.dll has not been refreshed (has still an old timestamp)

This is probably as you said because of the missing post build event which would copy the .dll and .pdb to this folder.

But now what I don't understand: None of the other projects in our solution has any post built events set. So why are they properly refreshed and only SGAM.MarketingListPlugins.dll isn't ? I attached the property screen of one of project which deployed properly.

Many thanks for your help.

Alen

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CrmPackage project has reference to all plugin/workflow/web resources within the project file. For some reason some times this reference gets removed that's why some of the plugin/workflow dll not copied over to crmpackage project bin folder. You can check this by unloading your SGAM project after project unloaded right click and select edit SGAM.csproj that will show xml fiel which project meta data. in this xml file search for projectreference and check all the plugin project reference exists. If you don't see any of the project reference it that will automatically copy dll of the plugin project automatically whenever you build project.

<ItemGroup>

<ProjectReference Include="..\Plugins\.csproj">

<Name>Plugins</Name>

<Project>{e26c3651-e3f2-47bf-a08d-a687a1c539de}</Project>

<Private>True</Private>

<SilverlightApplication>False</SilverlightApplication>

</ProjectReference>

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