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Sample code to consume UNData API in C#

Hi,

Recently we were working on an application that had to fetch country specific details. For this we used the UNData API.

http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=API

We can make use of SDMX Browser in helping us to write a query

http://data.un.org/SdmxBrowser/start

Create a console app\windows application and add web reference to the following web service

http://data.un.org/WS/NSIEstatV20Service.asmx

Below is the sample C# Code


string queryMsg = @"<message:QueryMessage
xsi:schemaLocation='http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/SDMXMessage.xsd
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/%20SDMXMessage.xsd'
xmlns:generic='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/generic'
xmlns:message='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/message'
xmlns:query='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/query'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
<message:Header>
<message:ID>onh14833545733929527</message:ID>
<message:Test>false</message:Test>
<message:Prepared>2017-01-01</message:Prepared>
<message:Sender id='online-help'/>
</message:Header>
<message:Query>
<query:DataWhere>
<query:And>
<query:Dimension id='INDICATOR'>SP_POP_TOTL</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='AGE'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='SEX'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='LOCATION'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='REF_AREA'>IND</query:Dimension>
<query:Time>
<query:StartTime>2014-01-02</query:StartTime>
<query:EndTime>2017-01-02</query:EndTime>
</query:Time>
<query:Dataflow>DF_UNDATA_WPP</query:Dataflow>
</query:And>
</query:DataWhere>
</message:Query>
</message:QueryMessage>";
NSIEstatV20Service service = new NSIEstatV20Service();
System.Xml.XmlDocument queryMessageDocument = new XmlDocument();
queryMessageDocument.LoadXml(queryMsg);
System.Xml.XmlNode queryMessage = queryMessageDocument.DocumentElement;
var result = service.GetCompactData(queryMessage);
MessageBox.Show(result.InnerXml);

The output

The query here basically returns the Total population of India

Hope it helps..

Using MediaWiki API for Showing content of Wikipedia page inside Dynamics 365 form

Hi,

Recently we had a requirement to show content of Wikipedia page and display it inside CRM in one of the entities form.

For this purpose, we can make use of “MediaWiki web service API.”

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

To create the query, we can use the below tool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3aApiSandbox

The html source code


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

function SetWikiContent() {

// get country name from crm form
if (Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name") != null) {

var title = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name").getValue();

// set the url
var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&page=" + title + "&prop=text&section=0&callback=?";

$.getJSON(url, function (data) {
for (text in data.parse.text) {
var text = data.parse.text[text].split("
");
var pText = "";

for (p in text) {
//Remove html comment
text[p] = text[p].split("<!--");
if (text[p].length > 1) {
text[p][0] = text[p][0].split(/\r\n|\r|\n/);
text[p][0] = text[p][0][0];
text[p][0] += "
 ";
}
text[p] = text[p][0];

//Construct a string from paragraphs
if (text[p].indexOf("
") == text[p].length - 5) {
var htmlStrip = text[p].replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '') //Remove HTML
var splitNewline = htmlStrip.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/); //Split on newlines
for (newline in splitNewline) {
if (splitNewline[newline].substring(0, 11) != "Cite error:") {
pText += splitNewline[newline];
pText += "\n";
}
}
}
}
pText = pText.substring(0, pText.length - 2); //Remove extra newline
pText = pText.replace(/\[\d+\]/g, ""); //Remove reference tags (e.x. [1], [4], etc)

Xrm.Page.getAttribute('new_wikiinfo').setValue(pText);
}
});
}
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="SetWikiContent();">
</body>
</html>

The helpful article

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8555320/is-there-a-clean-wikipedia-api-just-for-retrieve-content-summary

Hope it helps..

Simple Bing Map HTML Web Resource to show Country location in Dynamics 365

Just sharing a HTML Web resource code to show Country location inside the map using name of the country.

Source Code: –


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>My Bing Map</title>
<script charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript" src="https://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=7.0&s=1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map = null;

// get the bing map key https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff428642.aspx
var credentials = "AvYH87t36Tv3ybyYagU9HUZKjsrWO2Hcup3nu1fmNhpenHKO_xxxxx";

function GetMap() {

// countryName - name of the country from the CRM's form
var countryName = parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute("new_name").getValue();

// calling virtual earth api
var geocodeRequest = "https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations?countryRegion=" + countryName + "&key=" + credentials + "&jsonp=GeocodeCallback";

CallRestService(geocodeRequest);
}

function GeocodeCallback(result) {

if (result && result.resourceSets && result.resourceSets.length > 0 && result.resourceSets[0].resources && result.resourceSets[0].resources.length > 0) {

var coordinates = result.resourceSets[0].resources[0].point.coordinates;
var centerPoint = new Microsoft.Maps.Location(coordinates[0], coordinates[1]);

map = new Microsoft.Maps.Map(document.getElementById("mapDiv"),
{
credentials: credentials,
center: centerPoint,
mapTypeId: Microsoft.Maps.MapTypeId.road,
zoom: 5
});

var pushpin = new Microsoft.Maps.Pushpin(map.getCenter());
map.entities.push(pushpin);
}
}

function CallRestService(request) {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
script.setAttribute("src", request);
document.body.appendChild(script);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="GetMap();">
<div id='mapDiv' style="position: relative; width: 600px; height: 300px;"></div>
</body>
</html>

Check this helpful post as well

https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2015/03/05/accessing-the-bing-maps-rest-services-from-various-javascript-frameworks/

Hope it helps..

Deployment Manager – To create a new organization, the wizard must remove the current organization in Dynamics 365 message.

While creating a new organization using Deployment Manager we got the below message

It was because we had entered the Workgroup Product key which restricts it to only organization.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh699677.aspx

Changing the product key to the server one, allowed creating the new organizations.

Hope it helps..

2015 (not 2016) in review

Sharing Annual report of 2015. (sad to know that there will be no annual report this year for WordPress blog – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/annual-year-in-review-for-2016-for-my-blog?replies=30)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.