Does the D365 SDK exist for Mac?

Question

I'm new to Microsoft Dynamics development so apologies if this question is basic.

I'm looking to publish a plugin to a Dynamics E3 instance for testing/development, and it seems like I need to use the Plugin Registration Tool to do this. I've found https://xrm.tools/SDK , but it seems like there's no option to run these on a Mac (my development environment).

Is my best option here to use a Windows machine, or is there an SDK for Unix-based systems?

Answer 1

The SDK is currently Windows only, on the full .NET Framework. Microsoft has said they'll be delivering a .NET Core-compatible version of the SDK at some point, which should open up SDK development on other platforms.

Beyond that, the release of .NET 5 (slated for November 2020) will unify the .NET Framework into single version across all platforms.

Until the .NET Core version comes out, you can use the Web API to develop apps on other platforms.