Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 released some new features that will be very help for developers. In this post we will discuss new improvement in Update method. In earlier version we had different request for the special operations for example AssignRequest for changing owner once record is created, SetStateRequest to change the status of entity record. But now with the release of CRM2015 Update 1 we don’t need to use request (they are deprecated). We can simply apply these operation in the update request only.

For example below is the request to update account record and assign to another user and change status to inactive:

OrganizationService service=GetCrmService();

//Create account object

Entity account=new Entity(“account”);

//set account id

account[“accounted”]=new Guid(“af393105-2a98-407b-9215-6113f19498ad”);

//Assign this record to dev user

account[“ownerid”]=new EntityReference(“systemuser”, new Guid(“af80d7b3-e5e1-4b52-a141-a594f24ee015”);

//set account status to inactive

account[“statecode”]=new OptionSetValue(1);

account[“statuscode”]=new OptionSetValue(2);

//call update method

service.Update(account);

Before: 

After: