Generate postImageEntityXml (MSCRM 3.0) equivalent in MS CRM 4.0 Plugins

If you worked on MS CRM 3.0 callouts, in the method signature of Pre/Post you get a string called as postImageEntityXml.

postImageEntityXml is nothing but an XML string that describes the entity after the assign operation was performed. This is a serialized version of DynamicEntity.

You can create the DynamicEntity Object using the Context Object.
Eg:
DynamicEntity entity = (DynamicEntity)context.InputParameters.Properties["Target"];

Below is the code for MS CRM 4.0 which is equivalent of the postImageEntityXml string value in 3.0.

To implement this code functionality in plugin, use the Sample Plugin Code:
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public class postImageEntityXmlExample : IPlugin
{

// This fucntion gets called from the EXECUTE method of plugin (marked in bold)

private string SerializeDynamicEntity(Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.DynamicEntity entity)
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.DynamicEntity));
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
serializer.Serialize(writer, entity);
return writer.ToString();
}


private void WriteToFile(string message)
{
try
{
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"c:\ErrorLog.txt", true);
sw.WriteLine();
sw.WriteLine(System.DateTime.Now.ToString());
sw.WriteLine();
sw.WriteLine(message);
//Cleanup
sw.Close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//TODO Develop Code, if an Error comes while write to File
}
}

public void Execute(IPluginExecutionContext context)
{
DynamicEntity entity = null;

if (context.MessageName=="Create" context.MessageName == "Update")
{
if (context.InputParameters.Properties.Contains("Target") &&
context.InputParameters.Properties["Target"] is DynamicEntity)
{
entity = (DynamicEntity)context.InputParameters.Properties["Target"];

//call the below code to Serialize Dynamic Entity into postImageEntityXml
WriteToFile("\XML string \n" + SerializeDynamicEntity(entity));
}
}
}
}

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Isn't it simple?
Happy MS CRM Development.

Comments are welcome..... :)