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Overview of the Lead Service

The Lead Service is a new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that creates, updates, deletes, and retrieves lead documents for the Dexterity-based sample integration application for Microsoft Dynamics GP. The sample integrating application is included with Dexterity. To perform these operations, the Lead Service adds the lead document type to the Dynamics GP Service framework and eConnect.

The Lead Service also includes the following applications:

  • An application that adds security metadata for the new service to the Microsoft Dynamics Security Service.
  • An application that adds policy metadata for creating, updating, and deleting leads.

Before you install the Lead Service, verify the following components are installed.

  • The Fabrikam sample company and data. The procedures that follow add the Lead Service to the sample company database.

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Services. For information about how to install web services, see the Web Services Installation and Administration Guide.

  • Visual Studio. The Lead Service sample icludes several Visual Studio projects that you need to open, update, and build.

    Warning: You must be using Visual Studio 2010 or later, and you must configure your projects to target the .NET Framework 4.