A plug-in is a custom business logic that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to modify or extend the standard behavior of the platform. Plugins are mostly written in C# language and can be registered at various events like Create, Read, Update, Delete or on other messages and can run either in Synchronous or Asynchronous mode.

In one of my earlier articles, I had explained about downloading the Plugin Registration Tool using Power Shell.

Download CRM 365 V9.X Tools using PowerShell

In this article, will explain about the other way of downloading the Plugin Registration Tool using Visual Studio Code and Power Platform Tools.

Pre-requisite:

Follow the below articles and Install the Visual Studio Code and Power Platform Tools in VS Code.

1.How to Install Visual Studio Code?

2.How to Install Power Platform Tools in Visual Studio Code?

Follow the below steps after the Pre-requisites.

Step 1: Open Visual Studio Code.

Step 2: Press Ctrl + Shift + P to Show all the commands.

Step 3: Search for the Text “Show PAC Help” and Click on Power Platform CLI: Show PAC Help.

Terminal will be opened with the pac help command to see the list of all pac syntax.

Step 4: Type the below command and click on Enter.

pac tool prt

Plugin Registration Tool is downloaded.

And it will be launched automatically.

Plugin Registration Tool will be downloaded to the Local AppData folder.

You can check the same using the below link.

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerPlatform\PRT\9.1.0.184\tools

Hope you have successfully downloaded the Plugin Registration Tool using the Visual Studio Code and Power Platform Tools.

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