The MS CRM Team Blog announced the release of a new Visual Studio plug-in that will ease your customization and development tasks in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  After the installation steps, start up Visual Studio 2008 and you’ll see several exciting new tools available.

• The CRM Explorer allows you to view, create, modify and publish CRM entities and business units, all from within Visual Studio. 
• Ability to generate Wrapper Classes on those entities to facilitate software customization.
• Generate Plug-In Code to speed up your deployments.
• Register your customizations and deploy them across multiple servers.

Be sure to carefully read the installation instructions on the documentation first.  This toolkit is available for free!  Download at the below link.

• MSDN: The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit [Installer and Documentation]
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit: discussion thread

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