Generate MS CRM Entity Schema.

Hi,
"GenerateEntitySchema" tool generates a MS CRM Entity Schema.
Example "account": it generates the schema for all the attributes including (picklist values).
Have a look at this tool. (See screenshot)




you can download Generate MS CRM Entity Schema from http://www.codeplex.com/GenerateEntitySchema

As I'm working on this tool i'll release the source code soon.

All feedbacks are most welcome. !!!


Happy MS CRM Development.

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..... :)