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Using Property Collection in MS CRM 4.0

Published on December 20, 2008 in MS CRM 4.0 and Property Collection. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

While using Properties in MS CRM 4.0 one has to be careful as to which dotnet namespace you are instantiating it from. For MS CRM purposes, you need to make sure you instantiate it from Microsoft.crm.sdk and not from System.Data namespace. If you type the following code

PropertyCollection pc_Dummy = new PropertyCollection();

In the above line the word “Property Collection” will be show in Red in the Visual Studio IDE. This can be resolved using the following piece of declaration code. Continue reading ‘Using Property Collection in MS CRM 4.0′

Using Dynamic Entity in MS CRM 4.0

Published on October 15, 2008 in MS CRM 4.0. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

The other day, I was helping my wife with one of the issues she was facing in MS CRM 4.0. The code was basically trying to get an instance to the running crmwebservice and use that instance to create a contact or a update a contact in MS CRM.  The issue we were facing in particular, was a type casting issue where an implicit cast of PropertyCollection to Property was not being done. After some research here and here. We ended up with the following code Continue reading ‘Using Dynamic Entity in MS CRM 4.0′