FODevManager – Dynamics 365 FO Developer Profile Manager

🚀 Overview

FODevManager is a development utility for managing Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365FO) model deployments via customizable developer profiles.

The system includes:

• A powerful .NET 9 console CLI
• A modern WinUI 3 desktop UI
• Git-aware model tracking
• Automated profile switching, PeriTask integration, and structured logging

✅ Key Features

🧩 Profile Management

• Create, delete, and switch between multiple isolated developer profiles
• Each profile has a custom Visual Studio .sln and database config
• Easily import/export profile JSON files

📦 Model Management

• Add and remove models from profiles using CLI or UI
• View deployment status, Git repo info, and PeriTask assignment

🆕 Create Model From Scratch

• Automatically creates:
  • Metadata folder structure
  • Empty project folder with .rnrproj
  • Model descriptor XML file in Descriptor/

🔄 Convert Installed Model

• Converts models from PackagesLocalDirectory into a project-ready format under DefaultSourceDirectory
• Registers model in the selected profile

🔗 Deployment Automation

• Deploy/undeploy models via hard links or junctions to PackagesLocalDirectory
• Automatic update of profile JSON deployment status
• Git clean-check before switching branches

💼 Git Integration

• Detect if a model is in a Git repository
• Switch to a PeriTask-based branch (feature/TASK-1234)
• Open remote repo URLs in the browser

🖥 WinUI 3 GUI (New!)

• Modern interface for managing models, profiles, and deployment
• Inline Git and PeriTask actions
• Multi-line status logger with message severity
• Profile import/export, build info, and icon-based buttons

🛠 Installation

✅ Prerequisites

• .NET 9 SDK (Download)
• Windows 11 or 10 (Dev Mode enabled)
• Visual Studio 2022
• (Optional) Git CLI, PeriTask access

🧱 Build and Run

dotnet build
dotnet publish -c Release -o publish

Then run either:

• fodev.exe (console CLI)
• FODevManager.WinUI.exe (desktop app)

📂 Project Structure

/FODevManager
 ├── Program.cs                      # Console entry point
 ├── WinUI/                          # GUI project
 ├── Services/
 │    ├── ProfileService.cs
 │    ├── ModelDeploymentService.cs
 │    └── VisualStudioSolutionService.cs
 ├── Models/
 ├── Utils/
 ├── Config/
 ├── appsettings.json
 ├── Tests/
 ├── publish/

🧪 CLI Usage

fodev.exe -profile "DevProfile" <command> [options]

🔧 Profile Commands

Command	Description
create	Creates a new profile
delete	Deletes a profile
check	Validates paths/configs
list	Lists available profiles

🧱 Model Commands

Command	Description
-model "Name" add "path"	Adds a model to the profile
-model "Name" remove	Removes the model
-model "Name" check	Validates model deployment
list	Lists all models in the profile

🚀 Deployment Commands

Command	Description
deploy	Deploys all undeployed models
-model "Name" deploy	Deploys a specific model

🔀 Git + PeriTask

Command	Description
git-check	Checks if model path is a Git repo
git-open	Opens remote repo in browser
switch-task 1234	Creates & switches to branch feature/TASK-1234

⚙ Configuration

Edit appsettings.json:

{
  "ProfileStoragePath": "%APPDATA%/FODevManager",
  "DeploymentBasePath": "C:/AOSService/PackagesLocalDirectory",
  "DefaultSourceDirectory": "C:/Source/D365FO"
}

🪟 GUI Features (WinUI)

Feature	Details
Profile dropdown	Auto-load profiles from config
Model table	Git-aware, deploy status, task ID
PeriTask assign	Supports branch creation & URL opening
Git repo link	Button opens remote repo
Deployment	Model-level and profile-level deploy/undeploy
Logging	Multi-line status pane with message severity
About dialog	Shows version + build date
Import profile	Load profile JSON via folder picker

🧪 Running Unit Tests

dotnet test

Covers CommandParser, ProfileService, and ModelDeploymentService.

🧭 Roadmap

• ✅ WinUI 3 frontend (v1 complete)
• ✅ Git branch switch integration
• 🧪 Logging via Serilog (in progress)
• 🧱 MSIX packaging or installer (future)
• 🧊 Multi-user profile sharing (future)
• 🧪 Test coverage for more services

🤝 Contributing

• Open issues or PRs on GitHub
• Contact mortenaa@gmail.com for questions or feature requests

📜 License

Licensed under the MIT License