MS Dynamics CRM online 2011 - Authentication issues

Question

I am a total newbie with dynamics crm online (2011), and although I have been working through the SDK sample code, I am trying to find the simplest way to perform a basic authenticated connection to our online Dynamics CRM service, and push some very basic data to a custom entity/extension I have created.

Hopefully you can see from the above code snippet (sensitive data blurred), I am probably trying to circumvent the authentication process? The above code example was based a little on some of the code samples in the CRM SDK, and also from a code project example. I don't know if the code above would even work? actually it seems to try, and only when the "serviceProxy.Create" is executed do I get an authentication error.

I have also managed to navigate out of the corporate firewall with the following addition to my app.config file:

<system.net>
            <defaultProxy useDefaultCredentials=”true”>
                <proxy usesystemdefault="true"/>   
            </defaultProxy>
</system.net>

Again, not sure if there is a very basic way to connect? or should I really fall back to the SDK helper files?

Answer 1

This is the simplest way to connect to CRM Online, you need only to add reference to Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client and Microsoft.Xrm.Client.Services

CrmConnection crmConnection = CrmConnection.Parse("Url=https://XXX.crm.dynamics.com; Username=user@domain.onmicrosoft.com; Password=passwordhere;");
OrganizationService service = new OrganizationService(crmConnection);

Entity account = new Entity("account");
account ["name"] = "Test Account";

Guid accountId = service.Create(account); 

Refers to this msdn article for create the right connection string

Simplified Connection to Microsoft Dynamics CRM