SYNTAX CHANGES FROM MS CRM 4.0 TO CRM 2011 PLUGINS

uk365guy April 12, 2016 Blog

SYNTAX CHANGES FROM MS CRM 4.0 TO CRM 2011 PLUGINS

There are number of changes between Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK and CRM 4 SDK. Let’s take a look at what has changed between plugins.

1. The IPlugin now resides in Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk namespace instead of Microsoft.Crm.Sdk
public class ClassName : Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.IPluginpublic class ClassName : Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.IPlugin

2. The Execute method signature of the IPlugin interface has changed, it now expects an IServiceProvider instead of the IPluginExecutionContext.
public void Execute(IPluginExecutionContext context)public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)

3. To get a reference to the IPluginExecutionContext you now need to call the GetService method of the IServiceProvider interface.
public void Execute(IPluginExecutionContext context)Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.IPluginExecutionContext context =(Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.IPluginExecutionContext) serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.IPluginExecutionContext));

4. ICrmService has been changed to IOrganizationService.
ICrmService sdk = context.CreateCrmService(true); IOrganizationServiceFactory factory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory)); IOrganizationService sdk = factory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

5. DynamicEntity has been changed to Entity. · Properties property of DynamicEntity no longer exists · Getting and Setting values no longer use *Property classes, eg: no more KeyProperty, StringProperty…etc, simply do int value = (int)entity[“schema_name”];
if (context.InputParameters.Properties.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters.Properties["Target"] is DynamicEntity) if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRM 4.0 AND CRM 2011 CUSTOM WORKFLOW

uk365guy April 12, 2016 Blog

CRM 2011 – Custom Workflow Syntax changes from CRM 4 to CRM 2011

CRM 4.0

using System.Workflow.Activities;

using System.Workflow.ComponentModel;

using System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler;

using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk;

using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Query;

using Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy;

using Microsoft.Crm.Workflow;

CRM 2011

using System.Activities;

using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages;

using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;

using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Workflow;

2. Base Class

Base class definition has been changed from SequenceActivity to CodeActivity.

CRM 4.0: In CRM 4.0 we have to specify both Workflow name and Workflowactivitygroupname in the code as written in the following code.

[CrmWorkflowActivity(“My Custom Workflow”, “CRM Workflow”)]

public class MyCustomWF: SequenceActivity

CRM 2011: In CRM 2011 that is done in different way.

public class MyCustomWF: CodeActivity

Both Workflow name and Workflowactivitygroupname can be specified at the time of registering the assembly as shown in below screen shot.

3. Execute Method

The overridden Execute method remains the same except parameter and return type.

CRM 4.0

protected override ActivityExecutionStatus Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)

CRM 2011

protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext executionContext)

4. Create service

CRM 4.0

IContextService contextService = (IContextService)executionContext.GetService(typeof(IContextService));

IWorkflowContext context = contextService.Context;

ICrmService crmService = context.CreateCrmService();

CRM 2011

IWorkflowContext context = executionContext.GetExtension<IWorkflowContext>();

IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = executionContext.GetExtension<IOrganizationServiceFactory>();

IOrganizationService service = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

5. INPUT Parameters

CRM 4.0

Declaration: how to initialize the input parameter

// specified dependency property

public static DependencyProperty CaseIDProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(“CaseID”, typeof(Lookup), typeof(TotalTaskRetrieval));

// Specified Input property

[CrmInput(“Enter Case “)]

// Set the reference Target for Property created

[CrmReferenceTarget(“incident”)]

// Property Defined for caseId

public Lookup CaseID

{

get

{

return (Lookup)base.GetValue(CaseIDProperty);

}

set

{

base.SetValue(CaseIDProperty, value);

}

Use: Access the input parameter declared above as,

Guid caseid=CaseID.Value

CRM 2011

Declaration: how to initialize the input parameter

[Input(“Enter Case “)]

[ReferenceTarget(“incident “)]

[Default(“3B036E3E-94F9-DE11-B508-00155DBA2902″, ” incident “)]

public InArgument<EntityReference> CaseID { get; set; }

Use: Access the input parameter declared above as,

Guid caseid = CaseID.Get<EntityReference>(executionContext).Id

6. OUTPUT Parameters

CRM 4.0

[CrmOutput(“outputSum”)]

public CrmMoney Sum

{

get

{

return (CrmMoney)base.GetValue(SumProperty);

}

set

{

base.SetValue(SumProperty , value);

}

CRM 2011

[Output(“outputSum”)]

[Default(“23.3”)]

public OutArgument<Money> Sum { get; set; }

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ACTIVATE AND DEACTIVATE THE CONTACT RECORD IN MS CRM 2013

uk365guy April 5, 2016 Blog

ACTIVATE AND DEACTIVATE THE CONTACT AND DEACTIVATE/ACTIVATE FROM ITS PRIMARY ACCOUNT IN MS CRM 2013

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;

using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query;

namespace UltimaDisplay2016
{public class DeactivateContact : IPlugin
{
public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)

{
IPluginExecutionContext context = (IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));

IOrganizationService service = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

try

{
if((context.InputParameters.Contains(“EntityMoniker”))&&(context.InputParameters[“EntityMoniker”] is EntityReference))

{
var targetEntity = (EntityReference)context.InputParameters[“EntityMoniker”];

var state = (OptionSetValue)context.InputParameters[“state”];

var status = (OptionSetValue)context.InputParameters[“status”];

if(targetEntity.LogicalName != “contact”)

{
return;

}
if(state.Value == 1)

{
Guid contactId = targetEntity.Id;

Entity account = new Entity(“account”);

// to fetch account details

EntityCollection entitycollection = getAccountDetails(contactId, service);

foreach(Entity entity in entitycollection.Entities)

{
entity.Attributes[“primarycontactid”] = null;

service.Update(entity);

}

}
else

{
return;

}

}
catch (Exception)

{
throw;

}

}
// Fetching the record

public EntityCollection getAccountDetails(Guid contactId,IOrganizationService service)

{
try

{
string fetchXML = @”<fetch distinct=’false’ mapping=’logical’ output-format=’xml-platform’ version=’1.0′>

</filter>

</entity>
</fetch>”;

string fetch = string.Format(fetchXML, contactId);

EntityCollection collection = service.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(fetch));

return collection;

}
catch(Exception)

{
throw;

}

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BUSINESS ERROR AFTER SOLUTION DEPLOYED ON TO PRODUCTION MS CRM 2013

uk365guy April 5, 2016 Blog

PRODUCTION ERROR IN MS CRM 2013

Hi All,

I have came across a situation where i have deployed the Managed solution on the Onpremises MS CRM 2013 Production Environment for one of my client.

It came up “Business Error” when the users trying to update the Account record.

After quick glance, i figure out the problem is in the new solution which i have deployed, as the new solution have some entities and the production users don’t have access to them.

Go to Settings > Administration > Security Roles > Business Development(Security role name) >

Select the “Custom Entities” then select the new entities and set permissions for the security role.

Hence the problem has been resolved.

I Hope This Helps

Cheers:-)

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