Hello Developers,
I'm working with Dynamics CRM sdk 4.0. I'm trying to register a plugin in my code for a particular account on CRM online . When I try to run the Execute method of CRMService class by passing the request as a parameter then it shows the error of "Request failed with empty response". I am using Active Directory Authentication. May be this is causing that problem but I'm not pretty much sure. RegisterSolution() throws exception. I supply all the credentials of my CRM account i.e user name, password, domain, crm server and organisation name. Following is the link I have used as a reference to write code for that .
https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2233321&seqNum=6
I can also provide you complete source code so that you may easily find the problem if required. Following is snippet of my code. it's not having
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Query;
using Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy;
using ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4.Plugins;
using ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4.Plugins.Attributes;
namespace ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4.PluginDeploy
{
public class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string path = @"D:\Sukhdeep\Others\TestProject\ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4\ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4.Plugins\bin\Debug\ProgrammingWithDynamicsCrm4.Plugins.dll";
try
{
string pluginAssemblyPath = path;
string crmServer = "disco.crm5.dynamics.com";
string organizationName = "<orgName>";
DeployPlugin(pluginAssemblyPath, crmServer, organizationName);
}
catch (SoapException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Detail.InnerText);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
}
private static void DeployPlugin(string pluginAssemblyPath, string crmServer, string organizationName)
{
Console.Write("Initializing CrmService... ");
CrmService crmService = CreateCrmService(crmServer, organizationName);
Console.WriteLine("Complete");
pluginassembly pluginAssembly = LoadPluginAssembly(pluginAssemblyPath);
// UnregisterExistingSolution(crmService, pluginAssembly.name);
SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration[] steps = LoadPluginSteps(pluginAssemblyPath);
RegisterSolution(crmService, pluginAssembly, steps);
}
private static CrmService CreateCrmService(string crmServer, string organizationName)
{
UriBuilder crmServerUri = new UriBuilder(crmServer);
crmServerUri.Path = "/MSCRMServices/2007/CrmService.asmx";
string userName = <UserName>;
string password = <Password>;
string domain =<Domain>;
CrmAuthenticationToken token = new CrmAuthenticationToken();
token.AuthenticationType = AuthenticationType.AD;
token.OrganizationName = organizationName;
CrmService crmService = new CrmService();
crmService.CrmAuthenticationTokenValue = token;
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(userName))
{
crmService.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
}
else
{
crmService.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password, domain);
}
// crmService.Url = @"disco.crm5.dynamics.com/.../CrmService.asmx";
crmService.Url = crmServerUri.ToString();
return crmService;
}
private static pluginassembly LoadPluginAssembly(string pluginAssemblyPath)
{
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(pluginAssemblyPath);
pluginassembly pluginAssembly = new pluginassembly();
pluginAssembly.name = assembly.GetName().Name;
pluginAssembly.sourcetype = new Picklist(AssemblySourceType.Database);
pluginAssembly.culture = assembly.GetName().CultureInfo.ToString();
pluginAssembly.version = assembly.GetName().Version.ToString();
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(pluginAssembly.culture))
{
pluginAssembly.culture = "neutral";
}
byte[] publicKeyToken = assembly.GetName().GetPublicKeyToken();
StringBuilder tokenBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in publicKeyToken)
{
tokenBuilder.Append(b.ToString("x").PadLeft(2, '0'));
}
pluginAssembly.publickeytoken = tokenBuilder.ToString();
pluginAssembly.content = Convert.ToBase64String(
File.ReadAllBytes(pluginAssemblyPath));
return pluginAssembly;
}
private static void UnregisterExistingSolution(CrmService crmService, string assemblyName)
{
QueryByAttribute query = new QueryByAttribute();
query.EntityName = EntityName.pluginassembly.ToString();
query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(new string[] { "pluginassemblyid" });
query.Attributes = new string[] { "name" };
query.Values = new object[] { assemblyName };
RetrieveMultipleRequest request = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();
request.Query = query;
RetrieveMultipleResponse response;
Console.Write("Searching for existing solution... ");
response = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)crmService.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine("Complete");
if (response.BusinessEntityCollection.BusinessEntities.Count > 0)
{
pluginassembly pluginAssembly = (pluginassembly)
response.BusinessEntityCollection.BusinessEntities[0];
Console.Write("Unregistering existing solution {0}... ",
pluginAssembly.pluginassemblyid.Value);
UnregisterSolutionRequest unregisterRequest =
new UnregisterSolutionRequest();
unregisterRequest.PluginAssemblyId = pluginAssembly.pluginassemblyid.Value;
crmService.Execute(unregisterRequest);
Console.WriteLine("Complete");
}
}
private static SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration[] LoadPluginSteps(string pluginAssemblyPath)
{
List<SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration> steps =
new List<SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration>();
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(pluginAssemblyPath);
foreach (Type pluginType in assembly.GetTypes())
{
if (typeof(IPlugin).IsAssignableFrom(pluginType) && !pluginType.IsAbstract)
{
object[] stepAttributes =
pluginType.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(PluginStepAttribute), false);
foreach (PluginStepAttribute stepAttribute in stepAttributes)
{
steps.Add(CreateStepFromAttribute(pluginType, stepAttribute));
}
}
}
return steps.ToArray();
}
private static SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration CreateStepFromAttribute(Type pluginType, PluginStepAttribute stepAttribute)
{
SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration step =
new SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration();
step.Description = stepAttribute.Description;
step.FilteringAttributes = stepAttribute.FilteringAttributes;
step.InvocationSource = (int)stepAttribute.InvocationSource;
step.MessageName = stepAttribute.Message;
step.Mode = (int)stepAttribute.Mode;
step.PluginTypeName = pluginType.FullName;
step.PluginTypeFriendlyName = pluginType.FullName;
step.PrimaryEntityName = stepAttribute.PrimaryEntityName;
step.SecondaryEntityName = stepAttribute.SecondaryEntityName;
step.Stage = (int)stepAttribute.Stage;
step.SupportedDeployment = (int)stepAttribute.SupportedDeployment;
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(step.Description))
{
step.Description = String.Format("{0} {1} {2}",
step.PrimaryEntityName, step.MessageName, stepAttribute.Stage);
}
return step;
}
private static void RegisterSolution(CrmService crmService, pluginassembly pluginAssembly, SdkMessageProcessingStepRegistration[] steps)
{
RegisterSolutionRequest registerRequest = new RegisterSolutionRequest();
registerRequest.PluginAssembly = pluginAssembly;
registerRequest.Steps = steps;
Console.Write("Registering solution... ");
RegisterSolutionResponse response = (RegisterSolutionResponse)crmService.Execute(registerRequest);
Console.WriteLine("Complete");
//AddMembersTeamRequest addRequest = new AddMembersTeamRequest();
////Set the AddTeamMembersRequest TeamID property to the Object ID of
////an existing team.
//addRequest.TeamId = new Guid("A2EBD47D-1D14-DA11-A847-000874DE7397");
////Set the AddTeamMembersRequest MemberIds property to an
////array of GUIDs that contain the Object IDs of systemusers.
//addRequest.MemberIds = new Guid[] {
//new Guid("C0165813-008E-4ADB-96A8-E4C5253D35E5"),
//new Guid("F127938A-A2E8-4C76-994B-1F981B6D11CA"),
//new Guid("A7847F46-3E3A-404F-B496-C6B2D8EC113B")};
// AddMembersTeamResponse addResponse = (AddMembersTeamResponse)crmService.Execute(addRequest);
}
}
}Looking forward to hear from you.
Thanks