Release: 1.5.1
What’s New
- New: Plugin Profiler — debug any registered plugin step without leaving Visual Studio. Capture a real execution straight from your connected environment, then replay it locally with full breakpoint support — no more attaching Plugin Registration Tool or guessing at input parameters from logs.
- Fixed deploy reliability: plugin deployment now always does a genuine rebuild of just the target project (never a stale/incremental build left over from a previous configuration), and always reconnects fresh to CRM — eliminating intermittent "step is missing" / "plugin type is missing" errors caused by a stale cached connection.
- DeployX Explorer now refreshes an already-open assembly node automatically right after a deploy, instead of showing stale types/steps until a manual refresh.
- Removed the "last used environment" file-based memory — one less moving part, no behavior loss.
- Fixed several Plugin Profiler papercuts: captured-profile list now renders correctly, profiling steps are easier to tell apart in the tree ("Profiling - ..." prefix), stopping profiling now cleans up its captured data immediately, and the debug trace window shows the full captured execution context plus the plugin's own trace output clearly separated from DeployX's own status messages.
- General performance and stability improvements.
DeployX D365 – Dynamics 365 Plugin Deployment & Explorer for Visual Studio
Deploy, manage, and inspect Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Dataverse plugins directly inside Visual Studio.
DeployX D365 eliminates context switching between Visual Studio, Plugin Registration Tool, browser sessions, and deployment scripts by bringing the full plugin lifecycle into a single developer workflow.
Getting Started
1. Setup connection.json
Configure your environments once and start deploying immediately.
What you'll learn
- Creating
connection.json
- Adding multiple environments
- Storing connection strings
- Switching environments
Quick Demo
2. Deploy Your First Plugin
Deploy plugin assemblies directly from Solution Explorer.
What you'll learn
- Right-click deployment
- Environment selection
- Deployment confirmation
- Live deployment progress
- Safe assembly updates
Quick Demo
3. Open DeployX Explorer
Open the explorer directly inside Visual Studio.
Navigation
View → DeployX Explorer
What you'll learn
- Opening the explorer
- Environment selection
- Loading plugin registrations
- Navigating assemblies
Quick Demo
Working with DeployX Explorer
Explorer Hierarchy
Assembly
└── Plugin Type
└── Step
└── Step Images
4. Using Explorer Ribbon Actions
Toolbar actions automatically adapt based on selected node.
Available Actions
Assembly
Plugin Type
Step
- Register Image
- Update
- Enable
- Disable
- Unregister
Image
Quick Demo
5. Create or Update Plugin Steps / Images
Manage plugin steps directly from Visual Studio.
What you'll learn
- Register new step
- Update existing step
- Select message
- Select entity
- Configure stage/mode/rank
- Filtering attributes
- Register Pre Image
- Register Post Image
- Select attributes
- Update existing image
- Remove image
Quick Demo
Additional Features
Live Search
- Assembly search
- Instant filtering
- Fast explorer updates
Assembly
- Name
- Version
- Culture
- Public Key
- Isolation Mode
Plugin Type
- Type Name
- Friendly Name
- Workflow Group
Step
- Stage
- Execution Mode
- Rank
- Filtering Attributes
Image
- Image Type
- Alias
- Attributes
Requirements
- Visual Studio 2022+
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Dataverse
- Plugin development environment
connection.json
Roadmap
Upcoming capabilities:
- Plugin Profiler integration
- In-extension debugging
- Web Resource deployment
- Custom API registration
- WebHook management
- Advanced search
- Deployment history
