Finally the Plugin Registration Tool is new and improved!

If you're like me and find yourself often registering CRM plugins then you will probably be as excited as me that the Plugin Registration Tool has been reborn!

While the old Plugin Registration Tool did its job it always concerned me that such a key bit of Dynamics CRM functionality could be such and afterthought for Microsoft (No one had time to find an icon for it??)

When downloading the latest Dynamics CRM SDK 2013 I suddenly discovered the Plugin Registration Tool wasn't in its old spot. Its now found at {Base Dir}\SDK\Tools\PluginRegistration and it looks a fair bit different as shown below!

The Old

The New!

The functionality in general remains the same. Its just a fresher interface however there is a few changes both good and bad.

1. You can now view the plugins by Assembly, Entity, or Message. This makes it a lot easier when searching for a particular plugin step.
2. Currently it doesn't keep a list of servers/logins. Painful if you have a collection of servers!
3. The source code isn't available in the SDK.

Whether or not the source code is ever made available will be a big question marks however hopefully we can get further improvements in the near future!