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Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Add third party packages in to Source control in TFS

Below are the steps to Add a third party packages or ISV solutions received from different team in to the TFS t make it available in the Branch that can be accessed by the entire team. 


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.


Install third party packages in D365 F&O development environment

1.     On the virtual machine (VM), download the zip file for the deployable package. Make sure that the zip file is stored in a non-user folder.

Note : After you download the zip file, right-click it, and then select Properties. Then, in the Properties dialog box, on the General tab, select Unblock to unlock the files.

2.     Extract the files.

3.     Open a Command Prompt window, and go to the folder where you extracted the deployable package.


4.     Run the following command.

AXUpdateInstaller.exe devinstall

The devinstall option installs the AOT deployable package on the VM.

 Note

This command doesn't run database synchronization. You must run database synchronization from Microsoft Visual Studio after you install the deployable package.