At this point of the book, we have completed building different components of the Airline Compensation Management System (ACM). Now we need to package the solution for deployment into other environments or the Dynamics Marketplace. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 provides a framework upon which custom business applications can be built. It introduced the concept of a "solution" by providing full support for creating, trying, installing, upgrading, and deleting business applications that run on the Dynamics CRM 2011 framework. In this chapter, we are going to cover solutions in detail:
What's new in CRM 2011?
What is a solution?
Packaging the ACM solution
What is the difference between unmanaged and managed solutions?
Exporting a solution