Developer Toolkit (Beta) for CRM 2011-- A Catalyst for Dynamics CRM 2011 Development

The latest beta version of Developer toolkit(Integrated with VS 2010 IDE) for Dynamics CRM 2011 is included in the SDK. In the SDK, you could find it in the tools folder. I could see it as a catalyst for Dynamics CRM development. It saves a lot of time. Also its well structured.  Lets have a quick look at the beta version of Developer Toolkit for CRM 2011. You could find the following files in the developertoolkit folder. Installation of Developer toolkit is very easy.

You could see the following installation wizard and its super quick installation.

After installation, if you try to create a new project, you could see a section called Dynamic CRM as shown below. The ideal option would be to opt a solution. Because it would contain all the necessary elements for a Dynamic CRM 2011 project development. But choice is yours.

Next step is a connection wizard to connect to Dynamics CRM Server as shown below.

It would assume that we might need a silverlight project and displays various options for silverlight project. Again its optional.

It provides a very cool CRM Explorer. So "Dynamics CRM is visible from VS"

Lets have a look at the solution. As mentioned earlier it provides the necessary components for Dynamics CRM Development. Lets try to add a web resource.

Next step is to choose the web resource file type.

Please note the properties window of the web resource file.

In order to deploy something, you could choose the following option found on CRMPackage.

Do you think its a catalyst for Dynamics CRM 2011 Development?