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Hi experts i am Creating one Email Activity using SilverLight C# . The Problem is i am unable to set From and To fields.

I tried like below but it showing error.

ActivityParty toParty = new ActivityParty { PartyId = new EntityReference(Contact.EntityLogicalName, _contactId) };
email.To = new ActivityParty[] { toParty };

Here error is at email.TO and EntityReference(Contact.EntityLogicalName, _contactId)

Please Suggest some solution

Thank You.
saroj
Friday, October 12, 2012 12:55 PM

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Hi Andrii Thank you for your precious time and reply. I tried as your solution. But still it is not working. I am doing it as below.
private void CreateActivity()
{
Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
DataService.EntityReference fromEntityRef = new DataService.EntityReference();
fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser"; // I tried by replacing it with "activityparty" also
fromEntityRef.Id = Guid.Parse(_systemUserId);
Entity fromParty = new Entity();
fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;

EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
fromcollection.Entities = new ObservableCollection<Entity>();
fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);
emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;
emailEntity["partyidname"] = fromParty;
IOrganizationService service = ServerUtility.GetSoapService();
service.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, service);

}
private void OnCreateComplete(IAsyncResult result)
{
Guid emailId = ((IOrganizationService)result.AsyncState).EndCreate(result);

}

saroj

Hello,

It seems that you are not trying to do anything to make code work. I will provide last working sample of code and I will leave this thread.

            EntityReference entityRef = new EntityReference();
            entityRef.LogicalName = "contact";
            entityRef.Id = new Guid("78CD2C94-9A16-E211-8929-080027BC7342");
            EntityReference fromEntityRef = new EntityReference();
            fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser";
            fromEntityRef.Id = new Guid("D7C9CBD7-13F8-E111-B1A9-080027BC7342");
            Entity fromParty = new Entity();
            fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
            fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;
            Entity toParty = new Entity();
            toParty["partyid"] = entityRef;
            toParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";

            Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
            emailEntity.LogicalName = "email";

            EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
            fromcollection.Entities = new System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<Entity>();
            fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);

            emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;

            EntityCollection tocollection = new EntityCollection();
            tocollection.Entities = new System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<Entity>();
            tocollection.Entities.Add(toParty);


            emailEntity["to"] = tocollection;
            emailEntity["directioncode"] = true;
            emailEntity["subject"] = "subject";
            emailEntity["description"] = "description";
            emailEntity["regardingobjectid"] = entityRef;

            IOrganizationService soapService = SilverlightUtility.GetSoapService();
            soapService.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, soapService);

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Proposed as answer by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:50 AM
Marked as answer by Saroj kumar Das Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:21 PM

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Try to replace lines

PartyId = new EntityReference(Contact.EntityLogicalName, _contactId)

with lines

PartyId = new EntityReference() { LogicalName = Contact.EntityLogicalName, Id = _contactId }

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- Proposed as answer by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Monday, October 15, 2012 10:31 AM
Friday, October 12, 2012 1:14 PM

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Hi Andrii, Thank you for your response. Actually i am creating a new Email Activity. I am able to Add the body and Subject but unable to add From and To Field. How should i do it. I have tried many way but couldn't achieve this. The code you have suggested also getting error at Contact.EntityLogicalName.

Please Guide me and give some solution.

Thank you.

saroj
- Edited by Saroj kumar Das Friday, October 12, 2012 1:28 PM
Friday, October 12, 2012 1:28 PM
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Hi Saroj,

Did you check : http://mahenderpal.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/send-email-through-code-using-late-bound/
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Try to use following code:

PartyId = new EntityReference() { LogicalName = "contact", Id = _contactId }
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- Edited by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Friday, October 12, 2012 2:31 PM
- Proposed as answer by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Monday, October 15, 2012 10:30 AM
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Hi Andrii, Yes I have Googled many. but the solution were didn't work. So i posted this question in Forum. And For your kind information, i never post question directly here before googling or searched in different source.

Thank you.

saroj

Friday, October 12, 2012 3:31 PM
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Hi Mahender, thank you for your response. I have already tried the Late bound approach but when i passed the entity name as parameter in Entity().

Then it is showing error that no constructor take one Argument. What might be the problem.

Please suggest.

Thank You.
saroj

Friday, October 12, 2012 3:36 PM
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Did you try to set logicalname instead of passing entity name in constructor

Entity Fromparty = new Entity();

Fromparty.LogicalName="activityparty";

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Hi Mahender thank you very much for your reply. Here i am trying as below but this time the exception is throwing . I am Pasting my code and the error.

DataContextService.EntityReference entityRef = new DataContextService.EntityReference();
entityRef.LogicalName = "contact";
entityRef.Id = Guid.Parse(_entity._uid);
DataContextService.EntityReference fromEntityRef = new DataContextService.EntityReference();
fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser";
fromEntityRef.Id = Guid.Parse(_systemUserId);
Entity fromParty = new Entity();
fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;
Entity toParty = new Entity();
toParty["partyid"] = entityRef;

Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
emailEntity.LogicalName = "email";
emailEntity["from"] = new Entity[] { fromParty };
emailEntity["to"] = new Entity[] { toParty };
emailEntity["directioncode"] = true;
emailEntity["subject"] = subject;
emailEntity["description"] = descript;
emailEntity["regardingobjectid"] = entityRef;

IOrganizationService service = ServerUtility.GetSoapService();
service.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, service);

private void OnCreateComplete(IAsyncResult result)
{
Guid emailId = ((IOrganizationService)result.AsyncState).EndCreate(result);
MessageBox.Show("Email Id :" + emailId);
}

************The Exception is like below************

There was an Error while trying to Serialize parameter. The InnerException Message was Type System.Collections.Generic.List[...]With data contract Name ArrayOfEntity:http://Schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts is not expected. Add Any types not known statically to the list of Knowntypes.

Please suggest where i am getting Wrong.

Thank You.

saroj
- Edited by Saroj kumar Das Monday, October 15, 2012 5:09 AM
Monday, October 15, 2012 5:08 AM

hey Saroj,

This is how we do it.

Instead of using a array of Entities, use the EntityCollection.

Entity theEmail = new Entity("email");

EntityCollection _from = new EntityCollection();
_from.EntityName = "activityparty";
if (fromRef != null) {
   Entity f = new Entity("activityparty");
   f.Attributes.Add("partyid", fromRef);
   _from.Entities.Add(f);
}

theEmail.Attributes.Add("from", _from);

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Monday, October 15, 2012 6:37 AM

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It seems you are missing two below lines

Try

                 fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";

               toParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";

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Monday, October 15, 2012 6:39 AM

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Hi Mahender, i added above two line. Still the same Serialialization Exception is coming. Please suggest some other solution.

Thank you for your precious time.
saroj

Monday, October 15, 2012 6:59 AM
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HI Steven, when i tried your code it's getting error in " f.Attributes.Add()" Method that the Add method can not take two arguement.

Thank You
saroj

Monday, October 15, 2012 7:36 AM

Hello,

Here is solution for your issue:

            EntityReference fromEntityRef = new EntityReference();
            fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser";
            fromEntityRef.Id = new Guid("D7C9CBD7-13F8-E111-B1A9-080027BC7342");
            Entity fromParty = new Entity();
            fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
            fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;

            EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
            fromcollection.Entities = new System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<Entity>();
            fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);

            emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;

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Proposed as answer by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Monday, October 15, 2012 10:30 AM

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Hi Saroj,

You might wanna try it this way.

var activityParty1 = new ActivityParty { PartyId = new EntityReference(Contact.EntityLogicalName, contacts[0].ContactId.Value), }; Email email = new Email
{ From = new ActivityParty[] { activityParty1 },
To = new ActivityParty[] { activityparty2 },
}

Check out the sdk : Sample: Work with Activity Party Records

For more contacts, Create more activity parties and add them up in the array.

Thanks

Hope this helps.

Haris Adil e-Bizsoft
- Edited by Harispk Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:42 AM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:37 AM
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Hi Andrii Thank you for your precious time and reply. I tried as your solution. But still it is not working. I am doing it as below.
private void CreateActivity()
{
Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
DataService.EntityReference fromEntityRef = new DataService.EntityReference();
fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser"; // I tried by replacing it with "activityparty" also
fromEntityRef.Id = Guid.Parse(_systemUserId);
Entity fromParty = new Entity();
fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;

EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
fromcollection.Entities = new ObservableCollection<Entity>();
fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);
emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;
emailEntity["partyidname"] = fromParty;
IOrganizationService service = ServerUtility.GetSoapService();
service.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, service);

}
private void OnCreateComplete(IAsyncResult result)
{
Guid emailId = ((IOrganizationService)result.AsyncState).EndCreate(result);

}
saroj

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:21 AM

Hi Andrii Thank you for your precious time and reply. I tried as your solution. But still it is not working. I am doing it as below.
private void CreateActivity()
{
Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
DataService.EntityReference fromEntityRef = new DataService.EntityReference();
fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser"; // I tried by replacing it with "activityparty" also
fromEntityRef.Id = Guid.Parse(_systemUserId);
Entity fromParty = new Entity();
fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;

EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
fromcollection.Entities = new ObservableCollection<Entity>();
fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);
emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;
emailEntity["partyidname"] = fromParty;
IOrganizationService service = ServerUtility.GetSoapService();
service.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, service);

}
private void OnCreateComplete(IAsyncResult result)
{
Guid emailId = ((IOrganizationService)result.AsyncState).EndCreate(result);

}

saroj

Hello,

It seems that you are not trying to do anything to make code work. I will provide last working sample of code and I will leave this thread.

            EntityReference entityRef = new EntityReference();
            entityRef.LogicalName = "contact";
            entityRef.Id = new Guid("78CD2C94-9A16-E211-8929-080027BC7342");
            EntityReference fromEntityRef = new EntityReference();
            fromEntityRef.LogicalName = "systemuser";
            fromEntityRef.Id = new Guid("D7C9CBD7-13F8-E111-B1A9-080027BC7342");
            Entity fromParty = new Entity();
            fromParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";
            fromParty["partyid"] = fromEntityRef;
            Entity toParty = new Entity();
            toParty["partyid"] = entityRef;
            toParty.LogicalName = "activityparty";

            Entity emailEntity = new Entity();
            emailEntity.LogicalName = "email";

            EntityCollection fromcollection = new EntityCollection();
            fromcollection.Entities = new System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<Entity>();
            fromcollection.Entities.Add(fromParty);

            emailEntity["from"] = fromcollection;

            EntityCollection tocollection = new EntityCollection();
            tocollection.Entities = new System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<Entity>();
            tocollection.Entities.Add(toParty);


            emailEntity["to"] = tocollection;
            emailEntity["directioncode"] = true;
            emailEntity["subject"] = "subject";
            emailEntity["description"] = "description";
            emailEntity["regardingobjectid"] = entityRef;

            IOrganizationService soapService = SilverlightUtility.GetSoapService();
            soapService.BeginCreate(emailEntity, OnCreateComplete, soapService);

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Proposed as answer by Andrii ButenkoMVP, Moderator Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:50 AM
Marked as answer by Saroj kumar Das Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:21 PM

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Hi Andrii, Thank you very much for your valuable suggestion and time. Sorry to say it is not true that i am not trying. In this case i just used the "activityparty" instead of "email". So it was not working. Still i ll hope for your Suggestion and guidance in future.

Thank You very Much.
saroj

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:27 AM
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Hi Andrii I have marked it as answer. And hope Andrii, the CRM master will Help me in future. If Yes, Please leave a reply.

Thank you.
saroj

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:24 PM

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