The Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is included in the SDK package at SDK\Tools\DeveloperToolkit.

The Developer Toolkit supports creation and deployment of plug-ins, custom workflow assemblies, XAML workflows and web resources.

With the Developer Toolkit, you can do the following:

• Easily generate strongly typed proxy classes without having to run CrmSvcUtil.exe.
• Get access to entity and option set definitions within Visual Studio.
• Generate plug-in code so you can immediately begin to write code for business logic.
• Edit and register plug-ins without using the Plug-in registration tool.
• Create new web resources or extract existing web resources, add them to your solution, edit them, and deploy changes all within Visual Studio.
• Create and edit workflow and dialog processes from within Visual Studio.
• Create and deploy XAML workflows in Visual Studio.
• Get easy access to security role and field security profile information in Visual Studio.

Installation

Follow the below steps for installing Developer Toolkit, for Prerequisites Click Here

Step 1: Open SDK or if you don’t have SDK, download Latest SDK from internet.

Step 2: Goto SDK -> Tools -> DeveloperToolKit

Step 3: Close Visual Studio before installation process begins.

Step 4: Double click on CrmDeveloperToolsVS12_Installer to install it on your machine.

Step 5: After you install the Developer Toolkit, in the Microsoft Visual Studio New Project dialog box you’ll have a Dynamics CRM node under Visual C# as shown below

Project template options

In the Dynamics CRM node, you have the project template options shown in the following table.

CRM Package project

In your new solution, the CrmPackage project is a manifest project that contains all assets to be deployed to Microsoft Dynamics CRM combined with their deployment settings. By default, the outputs from each other project are added as references to this project in so that they can be deployed to the server.

You can add components to the package by adding projects as a reference or by adding components under the WebResources folder.

The RegisterFile.crmregister contains registration information for plug-ins and custom workflows created by the toolkit.

Deploy your solution

Deploy your solution to the server by right-clicking CrmPackage and then clicking Deploy. You can also deploy the Solution or the CrmPackage from the Build menu.