Hide Quick Create Form in CRM 2013.


After upgrading to CRM 2013, we wanted to hide the quick create form from the end users. This can be done through the entity customization’s Data Services section

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Microsoft Fakes and Plugin


Just sharing the helper class we use for writing Unit Test for Plugin using Microsoft Fakes

Sample Code for Plugin

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public class PluginClass: IPlugin
{
public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
{
IPluginExecutionContext context =
(IPluginExecutionContext)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IPluginExecutionContext));

// Everytime a lead record is created
// Create a corresponding contact record

if (context.InputParameters.Contains("Target") && context.InputParameters["Target"] is Entity)
{
Entity entity = (Entity)context.InputParameters["Target"];

IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory =
(IOrganizationServiceFactory)
serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));

IOrganizationService orgService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId);

if (entity.LogicalName == "lead")
{
Entity contactEntity = new Entity("contact");
contactEntity.Attributes["lastname"] = entity.Attributes["subject"];
orgService.Create(contactEntity);
}
}
}
}

Sample Code for Unit Test Class

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[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1
{
[TestMethod]
public void UnitTestMethod()
{
var serviceProvider = new StubIServiceProvider();
var pluginContext = new StubIPluginExecutionContext();
var organizationService = new StubIOrganizationService();

// Mole the basic Plugin objects
Helper.FakePluginVariables(serviceProvider, pluginContext, organizationService, 40, "Create");

// set the mole of entity
var entityAttributes = new Dictionary<string, object>();

entityAttributes.Add("subject", "Test Subject");
Entity leadEntity = Helper.FakeEntity("lead", entityAttributes, pluginContext);

// set the entity in the parameter collection
var parameterAttributes = new Dictionary<string, object>();
parameterAttributes.Add("Target", leadEntity);
Helper.FakePluginInputParameters(pluginContext, parameterAttributes);

organizationService.CreateEntity = (p1) => { return Guid.NewGuid(); };

var postCreateLead = new Class1();
postCreateLead.Execute(serviceProvider);
}
}

Helper class

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/// <summary>
/// Helper class for Fakes
/// </summary>
public static class Helper
{
/// <summary>
/// Fakes the plugin variables.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="serviceProvider">The service provider.</param>
/// <param name="pluginContext">The plugin context.</param>
/// <param name="organizationService">The organization service.</param>
/// <param name="stageNumber">The stage number.</param>
/// <param name="messageName">Name of the message.</param>
public static void FakePluginVariables(
StubIServiceProvider serviceProvider,
StubIPluginExecutionContext pluginContext,
StubIOrganizationService organizationService,
int stageNumber,
string messageName)
{
var serviceFactory = new StubIOrganizationServiceFactory();
var tracingService = new StubITracingService();
if (serviceProvider != null)
{
serviceProvider.GetServiceType = type =>
{
if (type == typeof(IPluginExecutionContext))
{
return pluginContext;
}
else if (type == typeof(ITracingService))
{
return tracingService;
}
else if (type == typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory))
{
return serviceFactory;
}

return null;
};
}

pluginContext.DepthGet = () => 1;
pluginContext.UserIdGet = () => new Guid();
pluginContext.MessageNameGet = () => messageName;
pluginContext.StageGet = () => stageNumber;
pluginContext.InitiatingUserIdGet = () => new Guid();
pluginContext.CorrelationIdGet = () => new Guid();
pluginContext.PrimaryEntityIdGet = Guid.NewGuid;
serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationServiceNullableOfGuid = t1 => organizationService;
tracingService.TraceStringObjectArray = Trace;
}

/// <summary>
/// Sets the Fakes for the Entity
/// </summary>
/// <param name="entityName">The LogicalName of the entity</param>
/// <param name="attributeValues">The attributes of the entity</param>
/// <param name="context">Object of type SIPluginExecutionContext</param>
/// <returns>Object of type Entity</returns>
public static Entity FakeEntity(string entityName, Dictionary<string, object> attributeValues, StubIPluginExecutionContext context)
{
var entity = new Entity(entityName);
entity.Attributes = new AttributeCollection();

if (attributeValues != null)
{
foreach (string key in attributeValues.Keys)
{
entity.Attributes.Add(key, attributeValues[key]);
}
}

if (context != null)
{
context.PrimaryEntityNameGet = () => entityName;
}

entity.Id = Guid.NewGuid();

return entity;
}

/// <summary>
/// Fakes the PluginContext.InputParameters
/// </summary>
/// <param name="context">the mole of the IPluginExecutionContext</param>
/// <param name="inputParameterCollection">Object of type System.Dictionary</param>
public static void FakePluginInputParameters(StubIPluginExecutionContext context, Dictionary<string, object> inputParameterCollection)
{
if (inputParameterCollection != null)
{
var parameterCollection = new ParameterCollection();
foreach (var key in inputParameterCollection.Keys)
{
parameterCollection.Add(key, inputParameterCollection[key]);
}

if (context != null)
{
context.InputParametersGet = () => parameterCollection;
}
}
}

/// <summary>
/// Detour method for the CRM Trace method
/// </summary>
/// <param name="content">the message to be traced</param>
/// <param name="value">Object of type object []</param>
public static void Trace(string content, params object[] value)
{
}
}

 

// Update 
   organizationService.UpdateEntity = (p) =>
            {
            };

// Execute
  organizationService.ExecuteOrganizationRequest = orgReq =>
                {                  
                    return new OrganizationResponse();
                };

// Retrieve
 organizationService.RetrieveStringGuidColumnSet = (p1, p2, p3) =>
            {
                Entity entity = null;
                if (p1 == entity1.EntityLogicalName)
                {
                    entity = new Entity(entity1.EntityLogicalName);
                    entity.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
                    entity.Attributes["new_category"] = new OptionSetValue(12345);
                    entity.FormattedValues["new_category"] = "home";                   
                }
                else if (p1 == entity2.EntityLogicalName)
                {
                    entity = new Entity(entity2.EntityLogicalName);
                    entity.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
                    entity.Attributes["new_moneyattr"] = new Money(100.0M);                    
                }
                return entity;
            };  
			
//RetrieveMultiple
  organizationService.RetrieveMultipleQueryBase = delegate(QueryBase query)
            {
                var collection = new EntityCollection();
                Entity entity;
                if (query is FetchExpression)
                {
                    entity = new Entity(entity.EntityLogicalName);
                    entity.Attributes = new AttributeCollection();
                    entity.Attributes.Add("attr", "value");                
                    collection.Entities.Add(entity);
                }
                return collection;
            };
			
// PreImage
  pluginContext.PreEntityImagesGet = () =>
            {
                EntityImageCollection entityImgColl = new EntityImageCollection();
                Entity preImageEntity = new Entity(enitity1.EntityLogicalName);         
                preImageEntity.Attributes.Add("new_id", new EntityReference(entity2.EntityLogicalName, Guid.NewGuid()));
                preImageEntity.Attributes.Add("new_bool", false);
                KeyValuePair<string, Entity> kvp = new KeyValuePair<string, Entity>("PreImageAI", preImageEntity);
                entityImgColl.Add(kvp);
                return entityImgColl;
            };
			

			

 

Hope it helps

tagName is null or not an object error in CRM 2011


Hi,

We recently faced this issue in one of our web resources (html). If we are trying to move the bottom scrollbar in the form, we get the below error in jscrpt.

This issue only occurred IE 8 and Update Rollup 15.

It worked properly in IE 9, 10, 11 and Update Rollup 15.

In one of the forums it was suggested that this issue will not occur if we only have UR 12. We tested it and found out that it did work properly in IE 8 with only Update Rollup 12.

http://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/p/119766/250458.aspx

Bye.

Cleared MB2-701: Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013.


Hi,

Yesterday I cleared the Extending exam.

It had 48 questions with 700 as passing score.

I had referred the official training material of CRM 2011 as the training material for CRM 2013 are not released yet. Apart from that I had gone through different articles and videos to prepare for it.

There were very few questions that were specific to CRM 2013. Mostly they were around new methods added in Client SDK.

For someone who has a good hands-on experience in development in CRM 2011, passing this exam would not be that difficult.

Bye.

405 error – Method not allowed error while calling WCF service inside Plugin in CRM 2011.


Hi,

Recenlty we wrote a plugin that was calling a WCF Rest Service. The plugin was registered on Pre Create of an entity. Here if we were creating the entity record through web interface, the plugin was running fine.

However if we had that plugin being triggered by another plugin (the other plugin was creating the entity record triggering this particular plugin) we were getting “405 – method not allowed” error.

As it turned out the WCF service was getting confused regarding the operation context when being called by another plugin.

Specifying the OperationContextScope fixed the issue.

Original Code

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using (
 var webChannelFactory =
 new WebChannelFactory<IAutoNumber>(
 new Uri(dictionaryConfigSettings[Constants.AutoNumberServiceUrl])))
 {
 IAutoNumber referralOffer = webChannelFactory.CreateChannel();

// get the next number from sequence
 autoNumber = Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumber +
 AddPadding(
 referralOffer.GetNextNumber(Constants.EntityNameReferralOffer),
 Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumberLength);
 }
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The modified code

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using (
 var webChannelFactory =
 new WebChannelFactory<IAutoNumber>(
 new Uri(dictionaryConfigSettings[Constants.AutoNumberServiceUrl])))
 {
 IAutoNumber referralOffer = webChannelFactory.CreateChannel();

using (new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)referralOffer))
 {
 // get the next number from sequence
 autoNumber = Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumber +
 AddPadding(
 referralOffer.GetNextNumber(Constants.EntityNameReferralOffer),
 Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumberLength);
 }

}
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The helpful post

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/nblog/CommentView,guid,26d9b30e-c441-4776-9778-4dfdab58bd3d.aspx

Hope it helps.

Unit Test RetrieveResponse in CRM using Microsoft Fakes.


Hi,

Recently we wrote a plugin that was using RetrieveResponse class to get the information of an n – n relationship using Relationship class.

The issue that we faced over here is that the Entity property of RetrieveResponse is read only, we cannot set it. The option was to write the wrapper class over it and use the same wrapper class in the code and the unit test.

/// <summary>
 /// Wrapper class for retrieve response
 /// </summary>
 [DataContract(Namespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts")]
 public class RetrieveResponseWrapper : OrganizationResponse
 {
 /// <summary>
 /// The _entity
 /// </summary>
 private Entity entity;

/// <summary>
 /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="RetrieveResponseWrapper"/> class.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="response">The response.</param>
 public RetrieveResponseWrapper(OrganizationResponse response)
 {
 try
 {
 this.entity = ((RetrieveResponseWrapper)response).Entity;
 }
 catch
 {
 this.entity = ((RetrieveResponse)response).Entity;
 }
 }

/// <summary>
 /// Gets or sets the entity.
 /// </summary>
 /// <value>
 /// The entity.
 /// </value>
 public Entity Entity
 {
 get
 {
 return this.entity;
 }

set
 {
 this.entity = value;
 }
 }
 }

 

Check out this post for more details
http://www.alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/01/13/How-to-unit-test-C-Dynamics-CRM-interface-code-part-III

 Hope it helps.