Release: 1.4.7

What’s New

• Improved connection file, environment connection, and refresh handling.
• Added loader-based connection/refresh experience.
• Improved connection error display.
• Fixed existing message selection issue in step update.
• Fixed automatic tree refresh after step enable/disable.

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

• Unregister

Plugin Type

• Register Step
• Unregister

Step

• Register Image
• Update
• Enable
• Disable
• Unregister

Image

• Update
• Unregister

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

Rich Metadata Inspection

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