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Register Plugin using Plugin Registration tool step by step | Dynamics CRM 2016

In this article on Dynamics CRM 2016 I will explain how to register Plugins using Plugin registration tool step by step. In the last article we discussed about developing a simple plugin. Once you have completed developing your plugin the next step is register to register the plugin DLL with Dynamics CRM application.

Plugin Registration in Dynamics CRM 2016

Plugin registration is the process of integrating your plugin code with Dynamics CRM server so that you can extend the standard behavior of CRM application. Once you compiled your plugin code in Visual Studio editor you will get the assembly file( pluginname.dll). This assembly can be integrated with CRM application in different ways.

Different ways to Register Plugin with Dynamics CRM 2016

Using Tools: There exists some free tools using which you can register plugins. The most common one is Plugin Registration tool developed Dynamics CRM community. We will explain how to Plugin registration tool in this article
Using Solution: Yes you add the plugin assembly and plugin steps into a solution and register in the target CRM environment.  Programmatically: Writing code you can register your plugin with CRM application.

Plugin Registration Tool

  • It can be used to register plug-ins and custom workflow activities with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
  • Plug-ins and custom workflow activities can only be registered in the sandbox (isolation mode) of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.
Here we have attached a video which talks about the entire process of registering a plugin assembly with Dynamics CRM 2016 application.