Visual Studio is the preferred IDE to build Microsoft Dynamics 365 server-side customization. Visual Studio is a very powerful IDE that improves productivity and facilitates customization development. A Visual Studio Solution will contain Visual Studio Projects that will ultimately generate Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLL) that will be deployed on your Dynamics 365 instance.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate the setup of a Visual Studio solution with the required .NET Dynamics 365 library references as a basis for other recipes.