Task: Delete Contact record where Full Name = “Arun Potti”

Solution: Follow the below steps,

Step 1: Open Visual Studio and Create Console Application Project.

Step 2: First we have to establish connection to CRM. Please follow my earlier post Connect to CRM Online or On-premise using C# SDK.

Step 3: Generate Early bound class using Crmsvcutil.exe. Please follow my earlier post Generate Early bound Class using CrmSvcUtil.Exe in CRM.

Step 4: Add EarlyBound.cs to the project.

Step 5: Include the namespace using EarlyBound.cs.

Step 6: Below method will delete Contact record,

deleteContactRecord("Arun Potti");
public static void deleteContactRecord(string fullname)
       {
           using (var context = new ServiceContext(_service))
           {
               Contact conRecord = context.ContactSet.FirstOrDefault(c => c.FullName == fullName);
               if (conRecord != null)
               {
                   context.DeleteObject(conRecord);
                   if (context.SaveChanges().Count > 0)
                  {
                       Console.WriteLine("Record deleted Successfully");
                       Console.ReadKey();
                   }
               }
           }
       }

Step 7: Final Code will be like below,

using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceModel.Description;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using EarlyBound;
namespace LinqToCRM
{
class Program
{
static IOrganizationService _service;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ConnectToMSCRM("arunpotti@MyOrg.onmicrosoft.com", "Password", "https://MyOrg.api.crm5.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc");
Guid userid = ((WhoAmIResponse)_service.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest())).UserId;
if (userid == Guid.Empty) return;
deleteContactRecord("Arun Potti");
}
public static void ConnectToMSCRM(string UserName, string Password, string SoapOrgServiceUri)
{
try
{
ClientCredentials credentials = new ClientCredentials();
credentials.UserName.UserName = UserName;
credentials.UserName.Password = Password;
Uri serviceUri = new Uri(SoapOrgServiceUri);
OrganizationServiceProxy proxy = new OrganizationServiceProxy(serviceUri, null, credentials, null);
proxy.EnableProxyTypes();
_service = (IOrganizationService)proxy;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Error while connecting to CRM " + ex.Message);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
public static void deleteContactRecord(string fullName)
{
using (var context = new ServiceContext(_service))
{
Contact conRecord = context.ContactSet.FirstOrDefault(c => c.FullName == fullName);
if (conRecord != null)
{
context.DeleteObject(conRecord);
if (context.SaveChanges().Count > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Record deleted Successfully");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
}
}
}

Step 8: Execute the project for the below output,

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