Merging solutions in Dynamics 365 CRM

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

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

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