Dynamics CRM 2013 SDK helper code not compiling

Question

The Dynamics CRM 2013 SDK comes with a few helper classes (not a solution, just .cs files) that reference among other things Microsoft.IdentityModel and System.IdentityModel. The CRM 2011 guide for using these classes can be found here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328228.aspx), no guide for 2013 yet. I am unable to build a .NET 4.5 library project because of the ambiguity of the two different IdentityModel references.

The first error I am getting after following the guide 1:1 is "SecurityToken" could not be found. The new CRM 2013 classes have using System.IdentityModel.Tokens at the top, so I add a reference to (not mentioned in CRM 2011 link) System.IdentityModel. Then I get 14 errors like this

'WSTrustChannelFactory' is an ambiguous reference between 'System.ServiceModel.Security.WSTrustChannelFactory' and 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannelFactory'

Has anyone been able to successfuly build and use the helpers for CRM 2013? Was my decision to add the last reference wrong?

Bassetassen Bassetassen · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-05T11:49:19

I tried to build a project with the WsdlTokenManager class from the SDK samples now and I had to reference both Microsoft.IdentityModel and System.IdentityModel.

In the code file I had to add these two usings:

using WSTrustChannel = Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel;
using WSTrustChannelFactory = Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannelFactory;

So now it compiles, but I have not tried running the code to authenticate a user.

Dynamics CRM 2013 SDK helper code not compiling

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