Solomon Cloud Solutions brings you tips on how to use the Dynamics SL 2015 SDK with VS 2015.

UPDATE 9/27/2016: The instructions below show how to use Visual Studio 2015 as a development environment for Dynamics SL 2015. However, you will not have access to the Code Inspector tool - Code Inspector was developed as a Visual Studio add-in, and add-ins are not supported in Visual Studio 2015.

Instructions:

Install the SL 2015 SDK

• When you execute the Templates.vsix (or controls.vsix) file, you may see a dialog box similar to the following:

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The most noticeable immediate impact for Dynamics SL users is that the following message starts to appear in a variety of places in SL:

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