Dynamics CRM: Proving Auto Number Data Type Is Legit!

I just saw Nishant Rana’s post about the auto-number data type that you can check here. And to be honest, I just knew about it and felt intrigued to test it. My expectation was pretty low about this data type (to handle lots of requests and result to duplicate numbers in the end). TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read), IT’S NOT!

For the testing purpose, I created the below Table with auto-number attribute with the name new_autonumber:

You can create the auto-number attribute, usingAuto Number Manager by Jonas Rapp (XrmToolbox Tool)/via new Solution UI (I’m using XrmToolbox):

For generating the entities inside the c# code, I used the below code:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Web.Configuration; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk; using Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector; namespace CrmCheck { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var connectionString = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["connectionString"]…