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Merging solutions in CRM 2011

Imagine you have 2 developers (Dev 1 & Dev 2) in your team working on 2 different organizations and 2 solutions, at the time of every release, you need to merge the components of both developers in to 1 solution.

One way is

  • Import Dev 1 & Dev 2 solutions in to another new organization.
  • Create a new solution and add the components of both solutions manually
  • This is easy if Dev 1 & Dev 2 solutions has less components.

What if the components are huge? you need to manually pick and add components both solutions in to a single solution or

Another way of merging solutions

  • Export & Save the both Dev 1 & Dev 2 solutions
  • Extract the saved solution .zip folders
  • Open “Solution.xml” files in both solutions in a notepad
Solution components

Solution components

  • In the <UniqueName> node, provide same unique name in both “Solution.xml” files
SolutionXml file

SolutionXml file

  • Import them back to new a organization
  • After the import, we get a new merged solution.
  • This is easier way of merging if the solutions has lot of components

Refer below MSDN video for more details

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  1. bohnnie
    November 12, 2013 at 4:23 PM

    Great helping blog Rajeev.

  2. Jesse Lott
    May 15, 2018 at 1:20 AM

    Thank you for the elegant solution…really helped us out!

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