Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Unleashed

IOrganizationService

Previously, the IPluginExecutionContext had methods to create the CRM and Metadata Services; now you will see these methods are gone. To use the CRM services you need to get an instance of the IOrganizationService as follows:

IOrganizationService service = factory.CreateOrganizationService(context.UserId)

The service instance returned by the IOrganizationService has the following methods:

• Associate—Used to create a link between records

• Create—Used to create records

• Delete—Used to delete records

• Disassociate—Used to remove a link between records

• Excecute—Used, for example, to execute Fetch queries

• Retrieve—Used to retrieve a record

• RetrieveMultiple—Used to retrieve more than one record

• Update—Used to update ...