What's TargetCreateDynamic in crm 2011

Question

I must convert a CRM 4 Plug-In to CRM 2011 Plug-IN. In my code a have a specific class called

TargetCreateDynamic.

create = new TargetCreateDynamic();
                    create.Entity = counter;
                    cRequest = new CreateRequest();
                    cRequest.Target = create;
                    cResponse = (CreateResponse)_cs.Execute(cRequest); 

Has anybody idea which class should be this in 2011?

Answer 1

Use just Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Entity class for CreateRequest. Below sample code which will make you an idea how to make a plain CreateRequest in CRM 2011

    internal Guid CreateEntity(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
        IOrganizationService organizationService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(null);

        CreateRequest createRequest = new CreateRequest();
        Entity entityToCreate = new Entity("Some_Entity_LogicalName");
        createRequest.Target = entityToCreate;
        CreateResponse response = (CreateResponse)organizationService.Execute(createRequest);

        return response.id;
    }

But if I want to create new record for some entity in plug-in - I use following shorter code:

    internal Guid CreateEntity(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        IOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory = (IOrganizationServiceFactory)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IOrganizationServiceFactory));
        IOrganizationService organizationService = serviceFactory.CreateOrganizationService(null);

        Entity entityToCreate = new Entity("Some_Entity_LogicalName");
        return organizationService.Create(entityToCreate);
    }

Please note that this is just a sample code, you do not need to create OrganizationService every time you are saving/updating/deleting some entity. You can create Organization service once for you plugin, store it in some 'global' variable and than just use it everywhere