Online CRM REST Service - Struck with an issue - c#

This is a simple task, but i am wasting more than a day. Thats why coming to you. Please help me to get out of the issue.
My requirement is very simple, i have an ASP.NET project. And i have an Entity in Online CRM
Entity Name: "Employee" and Fields are "Name, Age, Gender"
I cann't add CRM Dlls in my asp.net project. So i must use REST Service.
I have added service reference https://myoffice.crm5.dynamics.com/xrmservices/2011/organization.svc?wsdl
This is the code i am using
OrganizationServiceClient orgClient = new OrganizationServiceClient();
orgClient.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("admin#something.com", "mypassword");
Entity myContact = new Entity();
myContact.LogicalName = "Employee"; //Is it right? i must provide it here right.
ConsoleApplication1.ServiceReference2.AttributeCollection myAttColl = new ConsoleApplication1.ServiceReference2.AttributeCollection();
myAttColl.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, object>("Name","Emp1"));
myAttColl.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, object>("Age", "26"));
myAttColl.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, object>("Gender", "Male"));
myContact.Attributes = myAttColl;
try
{
orgClient.Create(myContact);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
I am getting "An error occurred when verifying security for the message" error when it run orgClient.Create(myContact).
No matter what i did so far. This is my requirement, a very simple adding entry to my custom entity into Online CRM using REST Service. I am going to run my webapplication in a separate domain called http://xyz.com. From here, i need to add the entries into Online CRM.
Any help?

It could seems strange but the reason is that the clock on the server and on the client are certainly not synchronized.
All you have to do is check that :
The client clock is synched with the server clock.
Both client and server are coordinated on the day time saving settings
Regards,
Kévin
Sources : here and here

The REST service is not exposed for external applications, it is for internal applications only. You may be able to get around this in an on premise deployment but in CRM Online there is no workaround that I am aware of. You are much better off if you add the CRM assemblies and do this in C#. Also, with the REST service you are severely limited to CRUD operations and you can't perform things like assign or change state. In my opinion the SOAP service is superior, but it still cannot be called from an external web application.
See the note that reads the following at this link - Data Access Using JavaScript
Note
It is not possible for an external application to use these web services because authentication is provided by Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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Microsoft CRM: How to enable/disable Systemuser without deprecated SetStateRequest

To disable a Dynamics CRM 2016 user with C# code the SetStateRequest is currently used.
Example:
var requestToDisableUser = new SetStateRequest()
{
EntityMoniker = new EntityReference("systemuser", userGuid),
State = new OptionSetValue(1),
Status = new OptionSetValue(-1)
};
organizationService.Execute(requestToDisableUser);
However, according to Microsoft the SetStateRequest is deprecated and should be replaced by using Update
But when I try to use Update to disable a user
Example:
var userToDisable = new Entity("systemuser", userGuid)
{
["statecode"] = new OptionSetValue(1),
["statuscode"] = new OptionSetValue(-1)
};
service.Update(userToDisable);
Then it raises the error :
Unhandled Exception:
System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault]:
'systemuser' entity doesn't contain attribute with Name =
'statecode'.
Which is true, because the systemuser Entity doesn't have a statecode.
And the systemuser Entity has a IsDisabled attribute, but that one is read-only.
So how can a user then be disabled/enabled without using SetStateRequest?
I don’t think it is possible, unless someone proves it is. To support my opinion: the latest SDK (8.2.1.1; 4/6/2017) still gives an example with SetStateRequest in SDK\SampleCode\CS\BusinessDataModel\UsersAndRoles\DisableOREnableUser.cs. Therefore, it should be the recommend way to do it, regardless the fact it is marked as deprecated in another part of documentation.
You might start an incident with MS support, or give suggestion on Connect; but according my experience, they don’t care much if workaround is available.
After CRM online 2015 update 1, special messages were deprecated for special attributes. Read more.
Per metadata, IsDisabled attribute of systemuser may be showing as not valid for update. And few other business owned entities like Team, BU, etc won't use statecode & statuscode.
You should be using IsDisabled attribute if planning to not to use deprecated methods.
It's probably a missing piece in documentation. But hints can be found wrt Specialized operations using Update message like below per MSDN
These specialized messages will continue to work with the 2011 endpoint. However, the recommendation is to use the UpdateRequest or Update method when possible to set these attributes. The Update message simplifies the Organization Service and makes it easier to code standard data integration tools used with Dynamics 365. In addition, it is easier to code and register a plug-in to execute for a single Update message instead of multiple specialized messages. The AttributeMetadata.IsValidForUpdate property for the above listed attributes has been changed to true in this release to enable this capability.
You can continue to use these specialized messages of the 2011 endpoint in your code. However, the Web API that eventually replaces the Organization Service supports only the Update message for these types of operations. If you want to get a head start on changing your code to align with the Web API, you can now do so. See Use the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Web API for more information.

Lync - inconsistent behavior with ContactEndpoints

I'm working on custom UI for company's directory based on Lync. Using Lync 2013 I execute this search:
Container.Instance.Lync.ContactManager.BeginSearch(SearchQuery,
SearchProviders.GlobalAddressList,
SearchFields.AllFields,
SearchOptions.IncludeContactsWithoutSipOrTelUri,
500,
ContactsAndGroupsCallback, SearchQuery);
For each of matching contacts I try to access their endpoints to display phone number:
var cit = ContactInformationType.ContactEndpoints;
var endpoints = contact.GetContactInformation(cit) as List<object>;
Problem
If found contact is in the contact list of account I'm using to connect Lync, then I get access to full details (5 endpoints). However if he is not in contact list, I get access to only 1 endpoint.
Any ideas why is it happening like that? Is there a global privacy setting I need to turn off or something?
How can I get access to all endpoints at all times?
Thank you.
PS: I tried to load each contact in the result set individually and still get the same behavior.
I encountered a similar problem when trying to write a program to obtain the status of all users on Lync SDK 2010. Chose all users and read it's status (online / offline etc.). But it's working out well with only those contacts that were in the list of client contacts. I do not know why, but the solutions are not found.A little later I use UCMA 4 (with Application endpoint), though the list received from AD and only able to get the current status.
Maybe it makes sense to use the search by AD? Find phone number by user sip? If so, try to use this filter for DirectorySearcher:
searcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress=*))"; //put sip instead of *
P.S. what sdk are you using?
Answer from Microsoft Support:
The behavior you are seeing is due to presence subscription optimization to the Lync client so that the subscription is delayed until the necessary contact information is required by the Lync client. Photo is an example for this optimization. Another example is ContactEndpoints. Please take a look at Contact presence subscription changes section of the Migration doc for Lync 2013 page in MSDN docs.
Specifically you must create and maintain your own ContactSubscription for the contacts that you need all the ContactEndpoints.
I have been facing the same issue. You can try loading the person's ContactCard before calling the GetContactInformation function explicitly
Microsoft.Lync.Controls.ContactCard objContactCard = new Microsoft.Lync.Controls.ContactCard();
objContactCard.Source=objContact.GetContactInformation(ContactInformationType.EmailAddresses);
ContactSubscription _contactSubscription = lyncObj.ContactManager.CreateSubscription();
_contactSubscription.AddContact(foundContact);
_contactSubscription.Subscribe(ContactSubscriptionRefreshRate.High, _ContactInformationList);
However, you still might get some delay in getting the information (phone numbers). You can choose to use Thread.Sleep or might just want to retry.
Hope this helps.
Problematic is relying on contact information even for the lync client user. In our solution we are doing something like this:
Contact user = LyncClient.GetClient().Self.Contact;
string email = user.GetContactInformation(ContactInformationType.PrimaryEmailAddress) as string;
I would expect that the current lync user contact always is filled properly. And if it wasn't, I'd expect the code to throw an exception or at least return null or an empty string.
Instead it sometimes returns the sip-uri of the contact without the leading "sip:" prefix. Oddly enough this is not always reproducable: Most of the time the code above returns the primary email address (according to active directory) correctly, sometimes it behaves as mentioned above.

I am trying to consume a PHP SOAP service from C# and create a class wrapper in VS 2010

I've been tasked with creating a class wrapper for a SOAP service, the idea is that you'll be able to treat it as a regular class. The main reason for this is that the WDSL for the SOAP service contains only one method and it's got 5 parameters and it's only kind of OO so you'd have to know all the method calls really well and it's a bit hard to remember them all.
OK, so I've tried adding a web reference, now web references can now be added as service references in VS 2010. You click add service reference advanced etc and it puts in a service reference. Great. Unfortunately if I try and access this from a class I can't.
I can build a console app and put code in the main procedure and access the method of the SOAP service fine but when I add a reference to a class library the intellisense won't allow me to select anything. I'd instantiate an instance like so:
SOAPService.webServiceService ws = new SOAPService.webserviceService();
ws.
and then the intellisense refuses to kick in. If I do the same in a web project or a console app then I can access it fine. I've added the namespace I've done all kinds of things. Also, I can add a web reference and get a DISCO file whenever I create a web project.
OK, also while I'm on the subject I also need to pass credentials to the web service in PHP.
The problem is that in the past I'd create some .net system credentials and add these and it would usually pass through if I was connecting to another .net service.
How should I be sending them to a PHP web service? I always get either invalid username/password combo errors or envelope malformatted error types
Thanks
Mr. B
So the intellisense is not working, but if you add the method in and try to use it does it work, or produce an error?
With regard to diagnosing authentication issues try using fiddler to view the SOAP messages that are being sent, and to view the reply. Do you have some other software that connects and authenticates to that service? Use fiddler to look at the SOAP messages and compare them to see if the header is different etc.
I'd normally do it like this,
using (Service service = new Service())
{
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Domain = "domain";
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = "password";
service.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = "username";
}
Also with regard to the service working or not in general use fiddler if you have any problems, you can see the SOAP messages and it often gives you a clearer message.
I know in IIS you can turn on failed request handling that also gives you an insight from what is going on at the server end, perhaps you have some form of logging too for your php service?

C# Amazon Product Advertising API

As of August 15, Amazon made it compulsory to sign all requests made to their Product Advertising API. I thought I had got everything working just fine but when the 15th finally came around, my web application stopped working and pretty much ever since I have been trying to find out how to sign the SOAP requests.
Amazon has an outdated sample code for signing requests that doesn't appear to work here
Basically, I need to know how to add a signature to the my requests using the most current C# SOAP API and .NET 3.5.
I hope I have given enough details, if I haven't please feel free to ask me to elaborate.
Thank You
The_Lorax
UPDATE:
I am using MVC and need to know how to add the Signature to the the ItemLookup or AWSECommerceService object. Is there an attribute that contains the signature value? How does it get attached to the request?
On this page, they say that I must include the Signature and TimeStamp parameters but the intellisense does now show any such attributes.
Check out http://flyingpies.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/17/. It has a walkthrough and a sample visual studio solution using C#, SOAP, WCF on .NET 3.5.
This library automatic sign the requests (Install-Package Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising)
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Nager.AmazonProductAdvertising/
Example:
var authentication = new AmazonAuthentication("accesskey", "secretkey");
var client = new AmazonProductAdvertisingClient(authentication, AmazonEndpoint.US);
var result = await client.SearchItemsAsync("canon eos");

Silverlight -> WCF -> Database -> problem

I have some silverlight code that calls a WCF service which then uses the Entity Framework to access the database and return records.
Everything runs fine but ... when I replace the Entity Framework code with classic ADO.NET code I get an error:
The remote server returned an error: NotFound
When I call the ADO.NET code directly with a unit test it returns records fine so it's not a problem with the ADO.NEt code
I used fiddler and it seems to say that the service cannot be found with a "500" error.
i don't think it's anything to do with the service as the only thing I change is the technology to access the database.
Anyone know what i'm missing here?
'NotFound' is a generic error message that could mean just about anything. If you are absolutely positive that you haven't changed the service interface, then the likely candidate is an exception is being thrown from within your service. Are you sure that the collection type that contains the data you are trying to return hasn't changed, i.e. from List< OfSomthing> to List< OfSomethingElse>?
In any case, something i have found invaluable for tracking this sort of issue is the Service Trace Viewer tool from Microsoft. Read all about it right here, all it takes is some simple changes to your web.config to enable the logging.
John Papa has a great article from MSDN Magazine Data Performance and Fault Strategies in Silverlight 3 that explains this issue and offers a solution. Due to browser limitations, error code 500s aren't routed properly. His solution modifies the outgoing HttpResponse Message back to a 200 for all Silverlight 500 responses.
If you are still stuck, you may want to try making the call to the service from the machine hosting the service. IIS by default returns much more information about what might have gone wrong when the call is from the local machine. (I believe this can be changed, but don't know for sure.)
try to add
HttpWebRequest.RegisterPrefix("http://", WebRequestCreator.ClientHttp);
to the Application startup event of the Silverlight app.
It should give you detail of what the real error is rather than NotFound. In my case, i was missing the clientaccesspolicy.xml resuired for cross domain requests.
How to: Specify Browser or Client HTTP Handling

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