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10.27.04
Programming Email Activity Attachment
 By Boris Makushkin
Microsoft CRM is now on the scene and it is increasing its market share, due to Microsoft Business Solutions muscles and marketing strategy.
It is tightly integrated with other Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Microsoft Great Plains, Solomon, Navision. Being relatively inexpensive in comparison to competitors, like Siebel, Oracle - Microsoft CRM opens you the door for worldwide operations automation. In this small article we would like to give you, software developer, some hints on Microsoft CRM customization.
Today's topic is Activity of email type programming - you usually deal with these customizations when you improve Microsoft Exchange CRM connector. How do you create email attachment - this is the main discussion topic. We'll use C#.Net.
In Exchange handler/event sink you create Activity of email type in MS CRM and one of the tasks is transfer the attachment(s) from the body of the incoming email to the attachment(s) in the Activity. You can realize it through direct access to Microsoft CRM DB. Let's see C# code:
1. First we are getting access to the letter via ExOLEDB:
CDO.Message iMessage = new CDO.MessageClass();
CDO.IBodyPart iPrt;
iMessage.DataSource.Open(bstrURLItem, null, ADODB.ConnectModeEnum.adModeRead,
ADODB.RecordCreateOptionsEnum.adFailIfNotExists, ADODB.RecordOpenOptionsEnum.adOpenSource, "", "");
2. Next - we come through the attachment list, get their names and save their bodies into temporary catalogue:
for(int i = 1; i <= aNum; i++) {
string fName = iMessage.Attachments[i].FileName;
string eName = fName.Substring(fName.Length-3, 3).ToUpper();
log.Debug("Attachment: " + fName);
iPrt = iMessage.Attachments[i];
string attName = Path.GetTempPath() + fName;
iPrt.SaveToFile(attName);
attachments.Add(Guid.NewGuid(), attName);
iPrt = null;
}
3. Then we cycle through the cache, containing attachments info and add them to the Activity created:
if (attachments != null) {
ICollection keys = attachments.Keys;
int attCounter = 0;
foreach (Guid o in keys) {
string attName = (string)(attachments[o]);
crmConnector.AddAttachmentToActivity(emailId, attName, (new FileInfo(attName)).Length, attCounter);
File.Delete(attName);
attCounter++;
}
}
Read the Rest of The Article.
About the Author:
Boris Makushkin is senior software developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – US nation-wide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com ), he is Unix, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports, Microsoft CRM SDK and Exchange Server SDK developer. You can reach Boris: borism@albaspectrum.com |
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