Package a crm unmanaged solution for deployment

Question

I am new to Dynamics CRM 2011 Development and Deployment.But recently, I need to upgrade changed web resource files (IE. Html,java script) only into the QA Environment.

The following is what I do this, currently.

1. export an unmanaged solution for webresource files to be updated.
2. use solution packager to extract the solution zip file into a working folder.
3. make code changes to web resource files.
4. pack the working folder into an unmanaged zip for deployment.

Would you please give me some suggestions about best practices to this.

1. How to package web resource files into an import unmanaged zip file?Any other tools?
2. Is there a vs template or do I need a vs solution to hold all the changes?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I don't have an answer to your question per se. However since you are working with an unmanaged solution the most straightforward approach would be to load the solution into your UAT environment and modify the web resource files directly in the solution on UAT.