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Business Central metadata for Visual Studio OData Connection Service

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Posted on by chigivigi

Business Central metadata url is not public, it requires authentication, and I am having trouble using it with Visual Studio OData Connection Service as using Network credentials does not help.

We already use the OData Connection Service with Dynamics CRM Customer Engagement to generate a class that we use for our API calls and we would like to make calls to Business Central in the same way and display the results in our frontend application.

Is there a way to generate the class with Business Central metadata url ?

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Business Central metadata for Visual Studio OData Connection Service

Hi,
I need to insert more than one accounts from c# console app that uses the power of odata webservices in business central. I can insert one but when it's come to more than one, the errors and exceptions start popping up.

here is my extract

var Context = new BC19.NAV(new Uri(serviceBaseAddress));
Context.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

try
{
    var coa = new BC19.Chart_of_Accounts
    {
        No = "111",
        Name = "Banana"
    };

    Context.AddToChart_of_Accounts(coa);
    Context.SaveChanges();
}

This works but if I want to insert more than one am not able. Context.AddToChart_of_Accounts(coa) doesn't allow if coa has more than one account. The issue is the same also in case of the multiple customers.

Kindly assist
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RE: Business Central metadata for Visual Studio OData Connection Service

I found a workaround. I downloaded the metadata file locally and used it as the source for the OData Connection Service so I did not need to authenticate it in the wizard.