Category: Tips for C#.net Customizations

Enable logging in CE without any third party tools

Hi,

Have you ever had an issue where you need logging mechanism to troubleshoot…

Out there we have some 3rd party software which can help with this…but we can use Notes entity in CE so that we can enable logging to our .Net Assembly code with out any other 3rd party additions.

Add the below part to your code..

Entity _annotation = new Entity(“annotation”);
_annotation.Attributes[“mimetype”] = @”text/plain”;
_annotation.Attributes[“notetext”] = message;
service.Create(_annotation);

And use the method above to create log wherever needed like below..no other DLL additions required..you fill find the logs under Notes entity.

createlog(service, “Your String to be logged”);

Hope this helps while troubleshooting…

Cheers,

PMDY

Understand differences between System.Collections.Generic.List.Add() & System.Collections.Generic.List.AddRange()

Hi,

For now we will jump back to our C# Collections to gain some understanding…

Firstly whenever we would like to add just one element to the collection we use List.Add as below

List<OrganizationRequest> RequestCollection = new List<OrganizationRequest>();

OrganizationRequest class is provided in Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk namespace.

For this list of organization request collection…if we want to add an element..we can do like this where CreateRequest  is part of OrganizationRequest

CreateRequest transCreate = new CreateRequest { Target = orderTransaction };
RequestCollection.Add(transCreate);//Adding a create request

Suppose if we want to add multiple elements…we can use as below..

RequestCollection.AddRange(orderStarValue,totalRewardStars,salesOrder,orderDate);

Hope this helps..