Create and Send Email Activity

You can easily craete and send an email activity in MS CRM 3.0 / 4.0.

If you experience "MS CRM 4.0: Generic SQL error 0x80044150" error, Please enable the impersonation in the web.config:

Here is the simple code to Create and Send Email Activity:

public bool CreateAndSendEmail(Lookup EmailFrom, Lookup EmailTo, string EmailSubject, string EmailDescription, Lookup RegardingObject)

{

    try

    {

        #region Create Email Object

            email ObjEmail = new email();

            if(EmailFrom != null)

            {

                activityparty ObjFrom = new activityparty();

                ObjFrom.partyid = EmailFrom;

                ObjEmail.from = new activityparty[] { ObjFrom };

            }

            activityparty ObjTo = new activityparty();

            ObjTo.partyid = EmailTo;

            ObjEmail.to = new activityparty[] { ObjTo };

            // Assign Subject

            ObjEmail.subject = EmailSubject;

            // Assign Description

            ObjEmail.description = EmailDescription;

            CrmSdk.CrmBoolean direction = new CrmSdk.CrmBoolean();

            direction.Value = true;

            ObjEmail.directioncode = direction;

            //Regarding Case

            if(RegardingObject != null)

                ObjEmail.regardingobjectid = RegardingObject;

            //Create Email

            try

            {

                Guid EmailGuid = Service.Create(ObjEmail);

                // Create a SendEmail request.

                SendEmailRequest emailRequest = new SendEmailRequest();

                emailRequest.EmailId = EmailGuid;

                emailRequest.TrackingToken = "";

                emailRequest.IssueSend = true;

                // Send the email message.

                SendEmailResponse emailResponse = (SendEmailResponse)Service.Execute(emailRequest);

                return true;

            }

            catch (SoapException)

            {

                return false;

            } 

        #endregion Create Email Object

    }

    catch (SoapException)

    {

        return false;

    }

}

Hope you find this code helpful.
Happy Coding.

Working with Null Values in MS CRM

When you update an entity instance there is a mechanism you can use to differentiate the absence of a value from a null value. To set an attribute value to null you must set both IsNull and IsNullSpecified to true. For attributes of type String, you must assign the value to String.Empty. This same mechanism is used when you create a query to find a null value.

Another option is to use the type helper code available in Microsoft.Crm.Sdk assembly and in the CRMHelpers classes.

Example

The following code example shows you how to create null instances of the various Microsoft Dynamics CRM attribute types.

CrmBoolean boolean = new CrmBoolean();

boolean.IsNull = true;

boolean.IsNullSpecified = true;

CrmDecimal dec = new CrmDecimal();

dec.IsNull = true;

dec.IsNullSpecified = true;

CrmFloat f = new CrmFloat();

f.IsNull = true;

f.IsNullSpecified = true;

CrmMoney money = new CrmMoney();

money.IsNull = true;

money.IsNullSpecified = true;

CrmNumber number = new CrmNumber();

number.IsNull = true;

number.IsNullSpecified = true;

Lookup lookup = new Lookup();

lookup.IsNull = true;

lookup.IsNullSpecified = true;

PickList list = new PickList();

list.IsNull = true;

list.IsNullSpecified = true;

Status status = new StatusV();

status.IsNull = true;

status.IsNullSpecified = true;

Owner owner = new Owner();

owner.IsNull = true;

owner.IsNullSpecified = true;

Example

The following code example shows you how to create null instances of the various Microsoft Dynamics CRM attribute types using the type helper classes.

CrmBoolean boolean = CrmBoolean.Null;

CrmDecimal dec = CrmDecimal.Null;

CrmFloat flt = CrmFloat.Null;

CrmMoney money = CrmMoney.Null;

CrmNumber number = CrmNumber.Null;

Lookup lookup = Lookup.Null;

Picklist list = Picklist.Null;

Status status = Status.Null;

Owner owner = Owner.Null;

Set Default Value to a Lookup Attribute using JavaScript

Below Example will set the Default Primary Contact ID for Account Entity.

if(crmForm.all.primarycontactid.DataValue == null)
{       
        //Create an array to set as the DataValue for the lookup control.
        var lookupData = new Array();

       //Create an Object add to the array.
        var lookupItem= new Object(); 

       //Set the id, typename, and name properties to the object.
        lookupItem.id = 'SPECIFY GUID of an Entity';
        lookupItem.typename = 'SPECIFY Entity Name';
        lookupItem.name = 'SPECIFY Attribute DISPLAY Value'; 

       // Add the object to the array.
          lookupData[0] = lookupItem; 

      // Set the value of the lookup field to the value of the array.
        crmForm.all.primarycontactid.DataValue = lookupData; 

} 

Create Note and Assign to a Entity.

Sample code which will create a note and attach to the specified Entity (Specify Entity Name and GUID of the Entity Record)

CrmService service = GetCrmService("http://192.168.150.221:5555", "ORGANIZATION", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD", "DOMAIN");

annotation note = new annotation();

note.subject = "NOTE SUBJECT";

note.filename = @"schema.xsd";

note.mimetype = "text/html";

string encodedData = string.Empty;

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"c:\schema.xsd", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))

{

byte[] byteData = new byte[fs.Length];

fs.Read(byteData, 0, byteData.Length);

encodedData = System.Convert.ToBase64String(byteData);

}

note.documentbody = encodedData;

note.objectid = new Lookup();

note.objectid.type = "SPECIFY ENTITY_NAME";

note.objectid.Value = new Guid("F27A627B-DF1A-DD11-AEA5-0003FF90FBC7");

note.objecttypecode = new EntityNameReference();

note.objecttypecode.Value = "SPECIFY ENTITY_NAME";

Guid annotationId = service.Create(note); 

---- HERE you can Initialize CRM SERVICE Object.....

public static CrmService GetCrmService(string crmServerUrl, string organizationName, string userName, string password, string domain)

{

    // Get the CRM Users appointments

    // Setup the Authentication Token

    CrmAuthenticationToken token = new CrmAuthenticationToken();

    token.OrganizationName = organizationName;

    CrmService service = new CrmService();

    if (crmServerUrl != null &&

    crmServerUrl.Length > 0)

    {

        UriBuilder builder = new UriBuilder(crmServerUrl);

        builder.Path = "//MSCRMServices//2007//CrmService.asmx";

        service.Url = builder.Uri.ToString();

    }

    service.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(userName, password, domain);

    service.CrmAuthenticationTokenValue = token;

    return service;

}

Happy Coding....