I am trying to add contacts to a newly created account, but seem to be having some problems linking the contact to the account.
After reading account data into a SQL Datarow, I create an account with code which returns the GUID for the new account:
account newAccount = new account();
if (!dr1.IsNameNull())
newAccount.name = dr1.Name.ToString();
ReturnGUID = service.Create(newAccount);
Using that new GUID, I then try to create a contact for that same account.
contact newContact = new contact();
if (!cr1.IsFirstNameNull())
newContact.firstname = cr1.FirstName.ToString();
if (!cr1.IsLastNameNull())
newContact.lastname = cr1.LastName.ToString();
newContact.parentcustomerid.Value = AccountGUID;
ReturnGUID = service.Create(newContact);
When it gets to the
newContact.parentcustomerid.Value = AccountGUID; line I get an error about this being the wrong type. I looked up the SDK documentation, and it appears that the 'parentcustomerid' value is an object type of customer?
Any sample code on how to add a new contact to a newly created Account?
