The release package features facilitates creation and deployment of release packages within a visual studio solution. Release package folders are created in the visual studio solution with Dataverse solution zip files, and XML files for table data to include in the deployment

The features provide a quick and simple way to package solutions and data for release. Along with efficiency in moving solutions and configuration data between environments, source control integration in Visual Studio means the release package files are safely persisted for future releases when moving through multiple environments

The release package features composed of the following. Click the link to view detials about each feature

• Create Release Package – this will export a solution from the active connection into a solution zip file. Configuration data may optionally be included and saved as XML files in a release subfolder
•  Add Data to Release Package – this feature enables quickly appending or updating configuration data in the release package
• Deploy Release package – this feature does a big bang deployment of sequentially importing all solution and configuration data from the release package into a saved connection
• Deploy Solution in Release Package – this feature enables importing a specific solution from a release package into a saved connection. This is an alternative to the big bang deployment where release tasks for solutions and configuration data need to be done in more of a controlled sequential order
• Deploy Records in Release Package – this feature enables importing specific configuration data from a release package into a saved connection. Again this is an alternative to the big bang deployment where release tasks for solutions and configuration data need to be done in more of a controlled sequential