sample-web-resource-utility.md

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Sample: Web resource utility (Developer Guide for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises)) | MicrosoftDocs	The sample demonstrates creating and updating Web Resources. The Web Resource Utility code demonstrates several applications of the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises) APIs: Managing connectionsa and Retrieving data about solutions.		10/31/2017	pehecke			sample	Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises)	web resource web resource, import	27b065e3-1157-4a93-b1e6-b46f25afb595	21	JimDaly	jdaly	developer

Sample: Web resource utility

Manually creating Web resources one at a time using the customization tools can take a long time when you have to create many files. The Web Resource Utility is a WPF application project that you can compile and run to import many Web Resource eligible files from a folder structure with a consistent naming convention based on the folder structure.

Download the complete sample from here Web Resource Utility sample.

Prerequisites

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Requirements

For more information, see the Readme.docx file.

The solution must be built in [!INCLUDEpn_Visual_Studio] before running. Double-click the WebResourceUtility.sln to open the source code in [!INCLUDEpn_Visual_Studio]. Open and view the Solution Explorer.

This solution uses linked files and requires access to the following files in order to compile:

Note

You may need to manually update the links for the files before trying to build the solution or you may experience compilation errors.

Demonstrates

In addition to creating and updating Web Resources, the Web Resource Utility code demonstrates several applications of the [!INCLUDEpn_dynamics_crm_online] APIs:

Managing connections
The Web Resource Utility preserves connections to multiple [!INCLUDEpn_dynamics_crm_online] servers so the user doesn’t need to enter connection information each time.

Retrieving data about solutions
The Web Resource Utility retrieves data about available unmanaged solutions and creates Web Resources using the customization prefix defined by the publisher of the solution.

Web Resource Utility

The following screenshot shows the Web Resource Utility user interface:

See also

Sample: Importing Files as Web Resources
Web Resource Messages and Methods
Web Resources for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises)
Streamline web resource development using Fiddler AutoResponder

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