CrmImpersonator Class (Sdk Assembly)

Allows a block of code to execute under the process credentials instead of the running thread's identity.

The CrmImpersonator class implements the IDisposable interface. It exposes the following members.

Remarks

This must be used inside a using statement. At the end of the using statement, execution will return to running under thread id.

Note    When you are using this class, you must set the ownerid property for the entity when you use the Create method or Create message.

For more information about impersonation, see the MSDN documentation, located at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376391.aspx.

Example

This shows how to use the CrmImpersonator class. For a complete example, see Authentication from an ASPX Page.

using (new CrmImpersonator())
{
    CrmAuthenticationToken token;
    if (offline == true)
    {
        token = new CrmAuthenticationToken();
    }
    else
    {
        token = CrmAuthenticationToken.ExtractCrmAuthenticationToken(Context, orgname);
    }
    token.OrganizationName = orgname;
    token.AuthenticationType = 0;

    //Create the Service
    CrmService service = new CrmService();
    service.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
    service.CrmAuthenticationTokenValue = token;
    service.Url = crmurl;

    account account = new account();
    account.name = "Offline Impersonator: " + DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString();
    if (offline == false)
        account.ownerid = new Owner("systemuser", token.CallerId);

    service.Create(account);
}

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.Crm.Sdk

Assembly: Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.dll

See Also

Reference

• Microsoft.Crm.Sdk Classes