As I noted in my earlier article ( Visual Studio 2008 and Sage CRM Web Services ) if you are using Visual Studio 2008 then it is perfectly possible to continue to use the Add Web Reference way of working. And it is up to you which way you choose to code. If you have used 'Add Service Reference'...

I have recently received a couple of emails asking me for help with starting a Web Service project when using Visual Studio 2008. Both my correspondents had previously been using Visual Studio 2005 and had been used to adding Web References. In Visual Studio 2005 a web reference would be added from the...

The code snippets that are installed as part of the Sage CRM SDK have been revised and edited. Additional snippets for both the .NET API and the SOAP Web Service Interface have been created. The new version of the SDK installer will be available at the time of the release of Sage CRM v7. Development...

I was tempted to start a new series of articles called " Mysterious Tables of Sage CRM " but since this is supposed to be a sensible library of "Hints, Tips and Tricks" I have resisted. Nevertheless there are a few tables in the Sage CRM database that whose purpose maybe obscure to...

This follows on from the article " How do you set a null value via (SOAP) Web Services? ". Part of the difficulty in setting DateTime fields to null via webservices is that System.DateTime in the (Common Language Runtime) CLR is considered a value type. In .NET, value types, including int,...

Assuming that Values are passed as strings via webservices we can therefore represent null as an empty string. The code below is modified extract of code from the sixthapp on the DPP site that is used in the classes. If I want to set the comp_website address field to null I only need to pass in an empty...

This article has been edited (31st October 2009) to correct links. In the Web Services API of the Sage CRM the webservices class itself has a string property called "Url". The URL property contains the URL location to which the SOAP requests are directed. It does not contain the pointer to...

This article was updated (31st October 2009) to correct links. It is perfectly true that for an early version of 5.8 we managed to generate a malformed WSDL file so that briefly people had to manually change the WSDL file to get webservices to work at all. But that was a tweak to correct the generated...

The links within this article were corrected 31st October 2009. Within the Sage CRM the are some additional system actions that maybe added to tabgroups or to ButtonGroups that allow us to relate one entity to another where no formal parent/child relationships have been built in the data model. The actions...

My hope is that if you have attended any of my presentations about the Web Services interface for Sage CRM you will have taken away with you an impression of the importance of the design of the client application and how this would affect performance. The source code for the sample application 'sixthapp'...