D365 FO OData proxy generation

To create the D365 FinOps C# OData Proxy do:

1. Install the following plugin

2. Using a Visual Studio Standard Library project and add a new ‘Connected Service’

3. Open the Reference.cs file in VS Code (VS Code seems to handle the file better than Notepad++ and Visual Studio)

4. Search for the EDMX mega string in the file

private const string Edmx = @”[mega big xml string we need to change]”

5. Cut the EDMX mega string and place in a file on disk call edmx.xml on disk. Change “” to “

Set this to be file to be embedded content in your Visual Studio project

5. Search for the below function name and replace with the code below:

6. Now create your own proxy wrapper with authentication using:

7. Sample unit test to create a sales order

Published: 03/12/2018