As I told in my previous post, I am working at a customer where we are trying to integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 using BizTalk 2010. Since CRM 2011 does not have a BizTalk adapter anymore, we have to use the webservices it exposes, which can be used in BizTalk in 2 ways. I first tried to use the untyped option, where you would have to use mappings with custom XSLT for your communication to the CRM service. I ran into a lot of problems with this, and then decided to use the typed option instead. Using this option, you will create a helper class that does the communication to CRM, which you can then use from your orchestrations. While looking for more resources on this, I ran into this video Peter Kelcey created, which I used as my basis for my solution. The full source for my solution can be found here.
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Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with BizTalk 2010
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