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I am using SolutionPackager to extract PCF controls from an exported unmanaged solution. After running the extract command Customization.xml has reference to the custom control but I do not see Controls folder in it. This is causing issues when I try to repack the same contents.

Am I missing something? Does Solution Packager not support extracting custom controls?

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Danish N. 186 on at

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Re: Solution Packager Extract does not extract PCF controls

Thanks @ryanspain you were absolutely right. I thought I was using the latest version.
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Re: Solution Packager Extract does not extract PCF controls

Hi @PowerMaverick,

What version of Solution Packager are you using? I am using 9.1.0.45.

I gave this a try just now and it appears to be working as expected - steps I followed below:

1. Install tooling
I installed the tooling that contains Solution Packager use this PowerShell command found on the docs website.

2. Export unmanaged solution
I created an empty solution and included a simple text PCF control I made.

3. Unpack unmanaged solution
I ran the below command from the Solution Packager (../Tools/CoreTools/) directory to unpack the solution ZIP file I extracted from my environment.
.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Extract /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"
This resulted in the below structure in my specified extract folder:
📁PCF_TestSolution_Extracted |-📁Controls | |-📁rsnet_RyanSpain.NET.TextInputControl |-📁Other

4. Pack extract solution contents
Using the very same command with Pack substituted in for Extract, I packed the above contents back into a solution ZIP file.
.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Pack /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"
I was able to successfully import the packaged solution file into my environment without issue.

Hope this helps in some way or form!

Ryan
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Re: Solution Packager Extract does not extract PCF controls

Hi @PowerMaverick,
I gave this a try just now and it appears to be working as expected - steps I followed below:

1. Install tooling
I installed the tooling that contains Solution Packager use this PowerShell command found on the docs website.

2. Export unmanaged solution
I created an empty solution and included a simple text PCF control I made.

3. Unpack unmanaged solution
I ran the below command from the Solution Packager (../Tools/CoreTools/) directory to unpack the solution ZIP file I extracted from my environment.

.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Extract /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"

This resulted in the below structure in my specified extract folder:

📁PCF_TestSolution_Extracted |-📁Controls | |-📁rsnet_RyanSpain.NET.TextInputControl |-📁Other

4. Pack extract solution contents
Using the very same command with Pack substituted in for Extract, I packed the above contents back into a solution ZIP file.

.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Pack /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"

I was able to successfully import the packaged solution file into my environment without issue.
Hope this helps in some way or form!

Ryan
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Re: Solution Packager Extract does not extract PCF controls

Hi @PowerMaverick,

I gave this a try and did not encounter any issues - steps I followed below.

1. Download tooling
Using this documentation, I installed version 9.1.0.45 of the tooling from NuGet (easy as running a PowerShell command).

2. Export unmanaged solution
The solution contains a simple text input control I made.

3. Unpack the unmanaged solution
I ran the below command from within the Solution Packager executable to extract the unmanaged solution ZIP file.

.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Extract /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"

I observed the below structure that include a Controls directory with my custom PCF control inside.

PCF_TestSolution_Extracted |- Controls | |-rsnet_RyanSpain.NET.TextInputControl |- Other

4. Pack the extract solution contents
Again, from the Solution Packager directory, I ran the below command to pack the extracted contents back into the same ZIP they came from.

.\SolutionPackager.exe /action: Pack /zipfile: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution.zip" /folder: "C:\temp\PCF_TestSolution_Extracted"

I didn't encounter any errors and was able to import the packed solution into my environment.

I hope this helps some way or another!

Ryan