Connecting to Dynamics 365 using web applications

This recipe reuses some of the previously built bits in preparation for the next scheduled task recipe.

In this recipe, we will build a one-page MVC application that creates an account when it is called, effectively creating a façade with some business logic to your Dynamics 365 endpoints. We will reuse the Data Access Layer (DAL) built in Connecting to Dynamics 365 from other systems using .NET earlier in this chapter, in our MVC application. We will add an additional method called CreateAccount and call it when the CreateNewAccount action is called from the account controller.

Getting ready

Since we are building an MVC application, it is strongly recommended that you use the latest stable Visual Studio version; we will be using Visual Studio 2015. We also need an existing DAL class; we will reuse the one from the Connecting to Dynamics 365 from other systems using .NET recipe. You just need to update the constructor to accept the connection...