Artika Dutt

 This article explains how we can create a DevOps build pipeline to create a retail deployable package that can be applied to an LCS demo box. The following details are for a full retail deployable package that can be applied to a Tier 1 LCS environment. Follow the standard steps to create a pipeline and choose 'Azure pipelines and 'vs207-win2016' as agent pool and specification respectively. Next, ensure that you have update source control details and pointed to the correct mapping. Add the following details under agent job. Choose Add MSBuild to the pipeline and choose the dirs.proj located on the root of the RetailSDK folder. Copy the Retail binaries. Copy the Retail packages Copy files to staging directory Publish artifacts to packages

In the past couple of months, there have been a lot requests for upgrading Retail from one version to another. In this post, I will be describing how to upgrade RetailSDK from one version to another. For this exercise I am upgrading from 10.0.18 to 10.0.20. Ensure that your current dev branch for 10.0.18 has been mapped to your local. Get latest and ensure that there are no pending changes.  Apply 10.0.20 update package to the environment. Navigate to https://lcs.dynamics.com/ Select the environment that you need to update Choose Maintain > Apply Updates Select the 10.0.20 service package released by Microsoft. Choose Apply This will kick-off the update process once complete you will be notified via email or you can refresh the page to view progress and details. Retail SDK 10.0.20 package To get the RetailSDK 10.0.20 package, navigate to the K drive (referred to as SourceRepo)  for an LCS demo box. This may differ depending on the environment. Sometimes it is in the C drive...