Sample: Create a reciprocal connection role

This sample shows how to create the reciprocal connection roles. It creates a connection role for an account and a connection role for a contact, and then makes them reciprocal by associating them with each other

How to run this sample

1. Download or clone the Samples repo so that you have a local copy.
2. (Optional) Edit the dataverse/App.config file to define a connection string specifying the Microsoft Dataverse instance you want to connect to.
3. Open the sample solution in Visual Studio and press F5 to run the sample. After you specify a connection string in dataverse/App.config, any sample you run will use that connection information.

If you do not specify a connection string in dataverse/App.config file, a dialog will open each time you run the sample and you will need to enter information about which Dataverse instance you want to connect to and which credentials you want to use. This dialog will cache previous connections so that you can choose a previously used connection.

Those samples in this repo that require a connection to a Dataverse instance to run will include a linked reference to the dataverse/App.config file.

What this sample does

The ConnectionRole and ConnectionRoleObjectTypeCode messages are intended to be used in a scenario where it contains data that is required to create a new connection role and connection role object type.

How this sample works

In order to simulate the scenario described in What this sample does, the sample will do the following:

Setup

1. Checks for the current version of the org.
2. The ConnectionRole message creates connection roles required for the sample.
3. The ConnectionRoleObjectTypeCode message creates the connection role object type code record for account.
4. The AssociateRequest message associates the connection roles with each other.

Demonstrate

1. Perform initial request and cache the results, including the DataToken
2. Update the records created in Setup
3. Perform a second request, this time passing the DataVersion with the DataToken value retrieved from the initial request.
4. Show the table changes returned by the second request

Clean up

Display an option to delete the sample data that is created in Setup. The deletion is optional in case you want to examine the tables and data created by the sample. You can manually delete the records to achieve the same result.

Use connections to link records to each other
Describe a relationship between tables with connection roles
Sample: Create a connection
Sample: Create a connection role
Sample: Query connections by a record (early bound)
Sample: Query connection roles by entity type code (early bound)
Sample: Query connections by reciprocal roles (early bound)
Sample: Update a connection role (early bound)