Create and Sending Email in CRM 4.0

Use the following code to send an email to multiple customers in CRM4.0

SendMailToMembers(ICrmService crmService, ArrayList members, String msgBody, Guid ownerID, Guid userID,string subject)
{

// create an email
email emailCreate = new email();
emailCreate.subject = subject;
emailCreate.description = msgBody;

//specify the owner for the mail
emailCreate.ownerid = new Owner();
emailCreate.ownerid.type = EntityName.systemuser.ToString();
emailCreate.ownerid.Value = ownerID;

//create an activityparty array holding all the guids specified in the members array list
activityparty[] ap = new activityparty[members.Count];
// creating as many activity party as the no of users or members in a team
int i = 0;
foreach (String memberID in members)
{
ap[i] = new activityparty();
ap[i].partyid = new Lookup();
ap[i].partyid.type = EntityName.contact.ToString();
ap[i].partyid.Value = new Guid(memberID);
i++;
}

// specify to part of the email
emailCreate.to = ap;

// specify the from part of the email
activityparty from = new activityparty();
from.partyid = new Lookup();
from.partyid.type = EntityName.systemuser.ToString();
from.partyid.Value = userID;
emailCreate.from = new activityparty[] { from };

// finally create the email and get the guid of the email
Guid emailId = crmService.Create(emailCreate);

// Create an SendEmailRequest object
SendEmailRequest req = new SendEmailRequest();
req.EmailId = emailId;
req.TrackingToken = string.Empty;
req.IssueSend = true;

// Finally Send the email message.
SendEmailResponse res = (SendEmailResponse)crmService.Execute(req);
}

Updating custom entities icons (Upload a new image for a Custom Entity in CRM)

For all our projects, we are always customizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. To achieve that, we create many custom entities and one of the worst aspect of that heavy customization is to have a lot of custom entities with the same icon. So, it is difficult to identify them just with their icon.

In order to customize further the application, it is a good thing to add different icon to each custom entity.

The standard approach

This approach consists of using the standard feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to update custom entites icons. In the customization view, just click on the menu “More actions” and click on “Update icons…”.

You then need to provide a file for each required icons:

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icon in web application (16x16 / gif / less that 10kb)
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Shortcut icon in Outlook (32x32 / ico / less than 10kb)
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Icon in entity form (66x48 / gif / less than 10kb)

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