In this recipe, we will reuse the Packt solution created in Chapter 2, Client-Side Extensions, as well as an account CSV file.
The Package Deployer is not meant to deal with large data migration; it is designed to import small amounts of records meant for configuration or as reference data. However, for simplicity in this recipe, we chose the accounts entity with only two records.
We will export the solution as managed and name it Packt_0_0_0_1_managed.zip.
The account CSV file will be called AccountsRecords.csv and will have the following details:
Account Name,Email
Packt 365,[email protected]
Packt 366,[email protected]
It is recommended that you have an XML mapping file to map the CSV columns to entity attributes in Dynamics 365. However, for simplicity, we omitted the mapping file in favor of default field names that will be automatically mapped to the corresponding entity attributes.