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yos mishan
yos mishan

Reputation: 193

Dynamic CRM 2011 5 developers 5 databases - how to sync solutions

We are 5 developers working today with 1 database.
We have always one ASYNC service working in order to allow debugging, it means that when a developer wants to debug async, he announce to the others that he is hijacking the async service to his machine till he finishes the debugging.
We want to switch to a database per developer, there are a lot of issues with that, for example syncing schema changes / solutions with other programmers/

What is the best practice with large team of developers, is there any tool / methodology that is best for large teams.
Also, in general, what is the best practice for large teams developing Dynamic CRM 2011. Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 178

Answers (2)

Joris Van Regemortel
Joris Van Regemortel

Reputation: 945

Highly recommended reference: Microsoft released a very thorough whitepaper on Lifecycle management. Read about it here.

A typical development flow could be

  • Developers develop against their own personal development organization (Online/On-premise), in a solution with the same publisher / name
  • They export the developer solution
  • They unpack the zip file into the XML structure
  • And check it into source control, merging it with the master version

A typical deployment into the integration organization could be

  • Get a latest version of the XML structure from source control
  • Package it into a .zip solution
  • Import it into the integration organization

This way, you have a full history of all changes, linked to the developers, and you can make controlled merges, using merging tools you're familiar with.

A developer can always get a latest version from source control, package it and deploy it in his own development organization.

Upvotes: 1

John Rogerson
John Rogerson

Reputation: 553

Typically, I have worked/advised the following:

  • All devs work on their own virtual system. Much easier debugging. No trampling on or coordinating with others. I use VirtualBox.
  • Work is exported (unmanaged solutions) into a common build system.
  • Work is merged into the relevant managed solution(s) in build.
  • Managed solution(s) exported from build and applied to test / uat / pre-production etc.
  • Managed solution(s) applied to production environment.

Upvotes: 2

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