Dataverse development tools

　　Dataverse development tools

　　　　There are many tools for developers you can use for different aspects of Microsoft Dataverse code development. The following table describes them briefly. Instructions to install and launch the tools are found in the next section that follows the table.

Tool	Description	Documentation
Configuration Migration tool (CMT)	Transport configuration and test data from one environment to another	Configuration Migraton tool
Package Deployer (PD)	Deploy packages to Dataverse environments where the packages contain solutions, custom code, HTML files, and more	Deploy a package
Plug-in Registration tool (PRT)	Registers custom code (plug-ins, custom workflow activities), service endpoints, and more	Register a plug-in Tutorial: Write and register a plug-in
SolutionPackager tool (SP)	A tool that can reversibly decompose a Dataverse compressed solution file into multiple XML files and other files so that a source control system can manage these files	SolutionPackager tool
Code Generation tool (CG)	CrmSvcUtil.exe is a command-line code generation tool for use with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises) and Dataverse. You can use it to generate early-bound (strong-typed) .NET Framework classes that represent the Entity Data Model (EDM) used by Dataverse, but we recommend you use the Power Platform CLI pac modelbuilder build command instead. pac modelbuilder build is capable of generating classes that support .NET Framework and cross-platform .NET (Core) compilation. Learn more about using pac modelbuilder build to create early-bound classes for the SDK for .NET	Use CrmSvcUtil.exe to generate early-bound classes for the SDK for .NET