Hi Chris,
Thanks for the link and additional information. I am looking for explicit and detailed instructions for converting an unmanaged solution to managed in an environment. I want to be able to do this in place so that the App Id does not change, and nothing is lost. There appears to be no way to do it this way.
So then I thought that I could export my unmanaged solution from the production environment and import it into a dev environment. I further thought that I could then export the solution from the Dev environment as Managed and then reimport it into production as managed. This is a bit of a problematic approach as it will require me to delete the solution in the production environment. I am hesitant to do that because one mistake may mean things are lost.
I have found zero instructions from Microsoft for making sure I do this right the first time. Your linked page is clearly not for citizen developers and outlines an approach that invalidates what I have said above. It uses a different product that has to be installed to access the "convert to managed" feature. I don't understand the advantage of following this new approach unless its actually the only way to properly convert an unmanaged solution to managed with no loss.
Ideally, I would like to follow the correct process but given my environment it seems overtly complicated for such a simple need. Therefore, if I am able to keep an unmanaged solution in sync between two environments, I thought this would be a good interim approach until I can find more explicit information on transformation, or Microsoft makes it part of the citizen platform.
While I understand this is not the preferred process is that any reason why I cannot sync between to unmanaged solutions?
Thanks
