How to test a plug-in for CRM 2011 Online without the need to publish it?

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  The only good way I can think of to do this is to maintain a second instance of CRM, either online or on-premise where you can register the plug-in's in sandbox mode and test.

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  • Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:43 PM
  • Unproposed as answer by Marcos Antonio Assis Tuesday, August 30, 2011 6:49 PM

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  I already have another instance of CRM Online but the scenario or the process is the same yet (deply/test/debug/build/deploy again). 

  The problem is that I don't want to register or to publish the plugin to do tests, I would like to do this in off line mode (in my local machine) and to use the Visual Studio to debug the code.

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  Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:14 PM
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  That would require using an offline on-premise deployment registered in sandbox mode.  Then you can hook your debugger to the sandbox worker process and step through your code as long as you deploy your .pdb file to the disk deployment location.

  THAT BEING SAID,

  it looks like there is a nifty plugin profiler tool you can use now too.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh372952.aspx

  Check it out and tell me what you think.

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  • Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:24 PM
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  OK, this make sense.

  My questions began when I've found this thread:

  http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crmdevelopment/thread/2e4be66f-b2e5-424e-a7c1-f898422fc16d/

  What you think? Is it really possible ?

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  Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:49 PM
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  Hello Marcos,

  You can try.

  But from my point of view it is better to create dev/test environment and test everything on this environment. Good article which describes how to create such kind of environment is

  http://crmscape.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-ms-crm-2011-vm-part-1-of-2.html

  http://crmscape.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-ms-crm-2011-vm-part-2-of-2.html

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  • Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Monday, February 20, 2012 3:56 PM
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