https://alexanderdevelopment.net/tag/web-services/Recent content in web-services on Alexander DevelopmentHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 17 May 2016 13:19:37 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2016/05/17/azure-text-analytics-sentiment-analysis-with-north52/Tue, 17 May 2016 13:19:37 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2016/05/17/azure-text-analytics-sentiment-analysis-with-north52/For the last several months I’ve been working on an enterprise Dynamics CRM project where one of our goals is to minimize the amount of custom code we write by using North52’s Business Process Activities. I had not been exposed to North52 before working on this project, but I have been pleasantly surprised with how much it has allowed our mostly functional resources to achieve without needing technical assistance.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2015/12/01/using-azure-machine-learning-predictive-data-models-in-dynamics-crm/Tue, 01 Dec 2015 03:08:34 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2015/12/01/using-azure-machine-learning-predictive-data-models-in-dynamics-crm/Earlier this year I wrote a post that showed how to perform sentiment analysis in Dynamics CRM using Microsoft Azure Text Analytics. Azure Text Analytics makes it incredibly easy to use sentiment analysis (with English text only), but the full Azure Machine Learning offering is much more powerful. In today’s post I will show how to create a custom predictive web service in Azure ML and make predictions with it in Dynamics CRM.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2015/10/12/sentiment-analysis-in-dynamics-crm-using-azure-text-analytics/Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:36:23 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2015/10/12/sentiment-analysis-in-dynamics-crm-using-azure-text-analytics/Last year I created a proof-of-concept solution that showed how to integrate Dynamics CRM with HP Haven OnDemand (then called HP IDOL OnDemand) to perform sentiment analysis and index records to support “find similar” queries. While I was working through the AzureCon challenge a few weeks ago, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to update my sentiment analysis code to work with the Text Analytics offering from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/26/custom-identity-class-to-represent-dynamics-crm-users-in-wcf-services/Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/26/custom-identity-class-to-represent-dynamics-crm-users-in-wcf-services/A few weeks ago I wrote a post called “Custom WCF service authentication using Microsoft Dynamics CRM credentials” in which I showed how to secure Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services using Dynamics CRM usernames and passwords. In that post, I used a GenericIdentity object to store the CRM user information, but unfortunately the GenericIdentity class is extremely limited in the amount of user-related information it can hold, so in this post I will show how to create and use a custom identity object to represent CRM users.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/05/diesel-xrm-service-wrapper-now-on-github/Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/05/diesel-xrm-service-wrapper-now-on-github/Last week I wrote a post called “Introducing the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper,” in which I presented a generic WCF wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service. Almost immediately I had several ideas about updates I wanted to make, so I’ve decided to host the project on GitHub. The project GitHub page is here, and you can find the code repository here.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/01/custom-wcf-service-authentication-using-microsoft-dynamics-crm-credentials-2/Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:03:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/08/01/custom-wcf-service-authentication-using-microsoft-dynamics-crm-credentials-2/Enterprise Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations frequently require developing custom Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web services to be used for integration with external systems. Typical use cases for custom web services would include situations in which a consuming system can’t easily access the Dynamics CRM Organization Service, or a custom service is required to do some data processing above and beyond the capabilities of the CRM Organization Service.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/07/31/introducing-the-diesel-xrm-service-wrapper/Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/07/31/introducing-the-diesel-xrm-service-wrapper/In this post, I will present a generic Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service that lets you turn any FetchXML query into a web service interface without needing to write any code at all. I call my solution the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper after Diesel, my Great Dane.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/02/21/accessing-raw-soap-requests-responses-from-dynamics-crm-web-services-in-c/Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/02/21/accessing-raw-soap-requests-responses-from-dynamics-crm-web-services-in-c/One of the things I have always found frustrating about WCF is that it effectively hides the actual SOAP message XML requests and responses in web service calls. From a Dynamics CRM perspective, I can think of at least three good reasons it would be nice to be able to access the raw XML generated and consumed by clients built with the SDK:https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/02/17/misadventures-with-crm-2011-web-services-and-adfs/Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2013/02/17/misadventures-with-crm-2011-web-services-and-adfs/I think the Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK is swell for interoperability, but I wanted to get a closer look at how the actual web service calls work, so I decided to access the sandbox CRM instance my company provides using a WSDL-based proxy as described here. Because the SDK has several examples for connecting to CRM instances using different kinds of authentication in the SDK\SampleCode\CS\WsdlBasedProxies directory, I figured this would be a piece of cake.