R – Creating or Updating Custom Entites in MS CRM 4.0

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For a requirement i was asked to export information into a custom entity that was created in MS CRM 4.0. I am trying to do this programmatically and I have not found a single code that actually accomplishes this. I wrote code to check if a certain value for a field exists in the entity but creating a new entity seems to be a little bit of puzzle for me. Any help on this would be appreciated.

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To create a custom entity from code, you need to use the MetadataService web service. The 'CreateEntity' method is used to create custom entities.

The CRM SDK for v4.0 shows you how:

CreateEntity Message (MetadataService)

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Here is an article from Microsoft that makes an attempt to discuss this topic:

http://community.dynamics.com/blogs/cscrmblog/archive/2008/06/23/web-services-amp-dlls-or-what-s-up-with-all-the-duplicate-classes.aspx

This is not a bug that you are running into but more of a difference in design between the way the two assemblies work and what they are designed to do.

If you want to continue to use the Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.dll you should be able to accomplish your goal with the following...

    StringProperty sp_Field1 = new StringProperty("Field1","Value1");
    StringProperty sp_Field2 = new StringProperty("Field2","Value1");

    CrmService service = new CrmService();
    service.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
    // Create the DynamicEntity object.
    DynamicEntity contactEntity = new DynamicEntity();
    // Set the name of the entity type.
    contactEntity.Name = EntityName.contact.ToString();

    // Set the properties of the contact.
    PropertyCollection properties = new PropertyCollection();
    properties.Add(sp_Field1);
    contactEntity.Properties = properties;

R – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 custom entity form onload event not firing

I enabled platform tracing using Microsoft Crm Diagnostics Tool 4 and now the onload event is executed. It still works when tracing is disabled again.

God I love developing in this environment.

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