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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At one of our customers we are running a project where we are integrating various systems, among which a hosted CRM 2011 on premise. In older versions of CRM we had a BizTalk adapter which could be used to set up communication between BizTalk and CRM, however with this version this is no longer the case. Microsoft has decided integration should be done by using the new webservices CRM exposes, which sounds easier then it turned out to be.
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