Question

Can anyone tell me why this code doesn’t work in an 2011 online plugin? What I’m trying to do is update a collection of custom entities. It throws the following error on the service.Execute(…). Another way to achieve this much appreciated…

Unexpected exception from plug-in (Execute): : System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.

EntityCollection CustomEntitiesNeedingSync = service.RetrieveMultiple(RelevantCustomEntitiesQuery);

foreach (Entity currentCustomRecord in CustomEntitiesNeedingSync.Entities)
{
   UpdateRequest theUpdateRequest = new UpdateRequest();
   theUpdateRequest.Target = currentCustomRecord;
   service.Execute(currentCustomRecord);               
}

Answer 1

You have to execute the request – not the record.

foreach (Entity currentCustomRecord in CustomEntitiesNeedingSync.Entities)
{
   UpdateRequest theUpdateRequest = new UpdateRequest();
   theUpdateRequest.Target = currentCustomRecord;
   service.Execute(theUpdateRequest);               
}