Manage ISV deployable package

After you install the ISV deployable package on a development VM, follow these steps to add the runtime package to source control.

1.    Open Source Control Explorer by clicking View > Other Windows > Source Control Explorer.

2.    Navigate to the metadata folder that is mapped on this development VM, such as MyProject/Trunk/Main/Metadata.

3.    Right-click the Metadata folder, and then click Add Items to Folder.

4.    In the Add to Source Control dialog box, double-click the folder that has the package name that you want to add to source control.

5.    Select all the folders except XppMetadata and Descriptor, if they exist, and then click Next.

6.    On the next page, on the Excluded items tab, select all files by clicking one of the files and then pressing Ctrl+A. At the bottom of the selection window, click Include item(s). When you're ready, click Finish.

7.    Open the Pending Changes window from the Team Explorer pane or by clicking View > Other Windows > Pending Changes.

8.    Review the changes, enter a check-in comment, and then click Check In.

 Deploying third-party code

Because the models and runtime packages are in source control, other developers who use other development environments can just synchronize the models and packages to their workspace by using the Get latest feature of source control.

Don’t forget to stop all D365FO services before doing it. (Next Post will show you How)

The build process will include this runtime package in the final deployable package. This allows customers to take the deployable package from the build and have one package to deploy to their environments. The one package includes both custom solutions and all the third party solutions.