CRM Entropy - A Microsoft CRM Blog: Silverlight and CRM 4

[UPDATE:  A demonstration of this code can be found in a follow-up post.]

My presentation this morning at CRMUG’s 10@10of10 went pretty well, I thought.  There weren’t too many attendees, though.  I can’t say I blame anyone for that.  In my experience, very few jump with glee for a chance to look at code.

Since the format was limited to 10 minutes, I obviously had to truncate a great deal of the information I wanted to provide.  It’s funny, because at first I wondered what I’d fill 10 minutes with.  Those who attended will likely visit this space to retrieve what I promised:  the code.  So, without further ado:

The Code
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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.ServiceModel; using System.ServiceModel.Channels; using System.ServiceModel.Description; using System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher; using System.Runtime.Serialization; using System.Xml;  namespace CrmSDK { public partial class DynamicEntity { private Dictionary<string, Property> namedProperties;  [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnore] public Dictionary<string, Property> NamedProperties { get { return namedProperties; } set { namedProperties = value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("NamedProperties"); } }  public DynamicEntity() { this.PropertyChanged += new PropertyChangedEventHandler(dynamicEntity_PropertyChanged); }  private void dynamicEntity_PropertyChanged(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e) { if (e.PropertyName == "Properties") { NamedProperties = convertPropertyArray(this.Properties); } }  private static Dictionary<string, Property> convertPropertyArray(Property[] properties) { Dictionary<string, Property> propertyDictionary = new Dictionary<string, Property>();  for (int propertyIndex = 0; propertyIndex < properties.Length; propertyIndex++) propertyDictionary.Add(properties[propertyIndex].Name, properties[propertyIndex]);  return propertyDictionary; } }  public class CrmServiceConnectionParams { public String Scheme { get; set; }  public String Url { get; set; }  public CrmAuthenticationToken AuthenticationToken { get; set; }  public BasicHttpSecurityMode SecurityMode { get; set; }  private void setSecurityModeFromScheme() { switch (Scheme) { case "https": SecurityMode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport; break; default: SecurityMode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.None; break; } }  public CrmServiceConnectionParams(String url, CrmAuthenticationToken token) { if (url.Contains("://")) { string[] urlSplit = url.Split(new string[] { "://" }, StringSplitOptions.None);  Scheme = urlSplit[0]; Url = urlSplit[1]; } else throw new ArgumentException("Failure creating CrmServiceConnectionParams instance. Invalid or missing URL scheme (e.g. 'http://').");  AuthenticationToken = token;  setSecurityModeFromScheme(); }  public CrmServiceConnectionParams(String scheme, String url, CrmAuthenticationToken token) { Scheme = scheme; Url = url; AuthenticationToken = token;  setSecurityModeFromScheme(); }  public CrmServiceConnectionParams(String scheme, String url, CrmAuthenticationToken token, BasicHttpSecurityMode securityMode) { Scheme = scheme; Url = url; AuthenticationToken = token; SecurityMode = securityMode; } }  public class CrmServiceInstance { private CrmServiceConnectionParams connectionParams; public CrmServiceConnectionParams ConnectionParams { get { return connectionParams; } set { connectionParams = value; spawnCrmService(); } }  private CrmServiceSoapClient crmService; public CrmServiceSoapClient CrmService { get { return crmService; } set { crmService = value; isCrmServiceReady = true;  if (OnCrmServiceReady != null) OnCrmServiceReady(this, new EventArgs()); } }  #region OnCrmServiceReady Event  public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnCrmServiceReady;  private bool isCrmServiceReady; public bool IsCrmServiceReady { get { return isCrmServiceReady; } }