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How to automatically update the References.cs file generated from OData Connected Services library?

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Hi everyone!

We use the OData Connected Services library in our .NET Framework 4.8 project to get definitions of Dynamics 365 entities and their fields, following Microsoft articles and documentation. This library generates a References.cs file with these definitions, which we can then use in our processing. For instance, we can use SalesOrderHeaders to create sales orders on Dynamics 365.

Is there a way to automatically update this References.cs file when changes are made to the Dynamics 365 schema? For instance, if a field is added to the Sales Order Header? At the moment, we are adding these fields ourselves by regenerating the References.cs files and finding any discrepancies, which is very time consuming.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

There is no such standard feature. You can customize your development to suit your needs, comparing existing entity definitions in References.cs with retrieved metadata, and generating updates for any additions or modifications. Implement periodic scripts to execute this custom code periodically, or trigger it when changes to the Dynamics 365 architecture are detected.

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Kevin

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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for responding.

Do you know if there is any documentation I can refer to to automatically do this? E.g. how to detect changes to Dynamics 365 architecture, or how to retrieve metadata definitions automatically?

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