Jun
27

Free Utility Released: Export CRM 4.0 Plugins

Mitch Milam Customization, Development, Dynamics CRM 2011-06-27

Updated: 9/30/2011. Version 1.1

Occasionally I find the need to extract a plugin from the CRM database. This could be caused by a variety of reasons:

  • The person or vendor who wrote the program is no longer working with your company and you have no idea what the plugin does ( believe me, this happens ).
  • You are having issues with a plugin and you need to review the code of the plugin that has been registered to verify that it was built the way you intended.
  • You are preparing to move to Dynamics CRM 2011 and you need to verify that your plugin assemblies will work well in CRM 2011.

 

Usage:

CRMExtractPlugins [serverurl] [organizationName] /L

It uses the security credentials of the currently logged-in user so you must be a CRM system administrator for it to work properly.

the /L parameter will extract just the names of the plugins within the system and place them into a file called [organizationName]-plugins.txt which can be found inside the folder that is created by the export process.

 

Examples:

CRMExtractPlugins http://crm contoso

CRMExtractPlugins http://crm contoso /L

 

You may download it here.

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Address: http://www.infinite-x.net/2011/06/27/free-utility-released-export-crm-4-0-plugins/
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  1. CRM 2011 – Tool for extracting CRM 4 plugins « Hosk's Dynamic CRM 2011 Blog @ 2011-06-27 15:30

    [...] The tool can extract CRM 4 plugins from the database.  You can read about it on mitch's blog here [...]

  2. CRM 2011 – Tool for extracting CRM 4 plugins - Hosk's Dynamic CRM 2011 Blog - CRM Technical Blogs - Microsoft Dynamics Community @ 2011-06-27 15:32

    [...] The tool can extract CRM 4 plugins from the database.  You can read about it on mitch's blog here [...]

  3. David Berry @ 2011-06-27 16:45

    Capital development, Mitch! I'm posting this to the CRM Wiki under the CRM 4.0 Development resources heading. I assume this utility is intended only to work for database-stored Plug-in assemblies?

  4. Mitch Milam @ 2011-06-27 20:08

    Dave,

    Yep, database-based only – which is really the only time you would need something like this.

    Let me know if you see any issues.

    Thanks, Mitch

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  6. Dynamics CRM 4.0-2011 Upgrade Tip #2 Know your plugins : CRM Accelerators @ 2011-07-01 03:02

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  7. CRM 2011 – How to download plugins in the database to a file « Hosk's Dynamic CRM 2011 Blog @ 2011-09-19 05:49

    [...] So you can download the tool from Mitch's blog here [...]

  8. CRM 2011 – How to download plugins in the database to a file - Hosk's Dynamic CRM 2011 Blog - CRM Technical Blogs - Microsoft Dynamics Community @ 2011-09-19 06:32

    [...] So you can download the tool from Mitch's blog here [...]

  9. Export Plugins utility updated - Mitch Milam's Microsoft Discussions - CRM Technical Blogs - Microsoft Dynamics Community @ 2011-09-30 10:03

    [...] http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2011/06/27/free-utility-released-export-crm-4-0-plugins/ [...]

  10. Retrieving the plugin dlls from MS CRM Dynamics Database | My Tech Days @ 2011-12-08 09:14

    [...] what really WORKED FOR ME at the end was Mitch Milam's tool which would extract the plugins as dlls and save it on the [...]

  11. Rick Wilson @ 2012-02-24 13:59

    Thank for spending time on this Mitch, helped me a out a lot this week.

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