CRM Explorer does not show plug-in assemblies

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit and 365 SDK.

Everithing was fine developing plug-ins but since last week CRM explorer does not show plug-in assemblies. There are no errors, I connect CRM explorer to my organization, select a solution and it loads. I can see entities and the rest of things but when I click on Plug-in Assemblies to expand it, It keeps loading for a few seconds and nothing appears.

Does anyone know what happens to my CRM Explorer? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I noticed this too. I had a plugin project with ILMerge, and the CRM explorer wouldn't load plugins, if Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk was not merged into the plugin dll. Even though it's not required when deploying to online.

Update: I found out that if you copy just the Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll in the build folder with the plugin dll, CRM explorer will load plugins just fine. So no need to merge it.