Solutions can be packaged as "unmanaged" or as "managed". Having a good understanding of the capabilities and limitations of each package type is very important for developers and CRM administrators, as it has deep implications on the way that CRM 2011 processes components. Let's take a look at the two different package types in detail.
It doesn't matter how you are creating the initial solution, every newly-solution is unmanaged. The new solution is just a container that holds references to components in the system. Adding components to the solution is as simple as selecting from any existing components, or creating new components from the context of the solution. Unmanaged solutions only have a reference to components in the system, and do not have a copy of a component. Multiple unmanaged solutions can have a reference to the same component, and changes made to the component will be visible in all other solutions regardless, of...