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MSCRM: Can one convert a CrmService to a DataContext (new CRM SDK)?

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a DataContext (a class available via the new MSCRM SDK) from an existing CrmService. Is this at all possible in a supported manner?

If so, how can this be done?

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Are you talking about a LINQ DataContext? If so, this isn't openly supported. You could create the Linq to SQL scaffolding just like with any other database and then have access to a DataContext, but updates/inserts would be unsupported.

There are some third party tools that allow you to use LINQ to do queries.

Focus  2010-07-07 15:08:13
That's what I was afraid of. :(Are those 3rd party tools "supported" by MS?
Shaamaan  2010-07-09 15:12:13
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The Advanced Developer Extensions (part of the most recent SDK release) provide an XrmDataContext class to allow querying CRM via linq.

mavnn  2010-07-14 09:25:24

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