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Konrad Viltersten
Konrad Viltersten

Reputation: 39268

How to deploy a utility DLL that is used by plugins?

I've entered a project that used the architecture where all the utility classes were stored in the same project as the plugin. That's fine as long as there's only a few plugins with different utilities.

I noticed, however, that as the number of plugins has grown, many of the individual utility classes overlap. So, I'd like to pull out all the utilities into a single, separate project. My fear is that it's going to be too complicated to maintain once I'm leaving the customer as they're not technically keen.

The best solution I've got this far is following this blog facilitating ILMerge. However, I wonder if there's a simpler way. The optimal approach would be if I can make the CRM "see" the utility DLL just by uploading it. Can I somehow register a non-plugin, non-executable DLL that the plugins can refer to?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 236

Answers (1)

Nicknow
Nicknow

Reputation: 7234

No, if you are using CRM Online this is not supported.

If you are running CRM On-Premises you could deploy the utility DLLs to disk or register them in the GAC. In either case you need to make sure to keep them updated on each CRM server - if there is more than one.

Upvotes: 2

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