How to use customized entities

CRM Dynamics contains native entities (contact, account, opportunity, appointment …).
The CRM SDK API already contains specific classes for these native entities.
It is possible to create customized entities. To use them in programs, i found that there
are two options for that : either use crm webservice or use the CRM SDK API. With the latter option, you have to use Dynamic entity to access your custom entities.
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Steps to run a plug-in for the Dynamics CRM in debug mode

Here are the steps to run a plug-in in debug mode
1) In Visual Studio (BIDS), build the project
2) Copy the generated DLL file and the PDB file (they are located in the project folder, under bin\Debug) to the CRM assembly folder : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Server\bin\assembly
3) Deploy or redeploy the plug-in using the Plug-in registration tool
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