Consuming an external service within Dynamics 365 for Operations
The technique hasn't changed substantially since Dynamics AX 2012. The key difference is that we will need to manually craft the binding. We will still need to create a C# project to consume the web service, and then use it as a reference within our Dynamics 365 for Operations project.
The example service is a weather service provided by WebserviceX.net (www.webservicex.net). There is no recommendation here; it was simply the first one in when I searched for weather web services. The aim is to create a recipe that you can use for your web services: the chosen service in this case isn't relevant.
Note
When selecting a service to use, we must check the license terms and conditions, as not all are free to use; just because the license terms aren't enforced, it does not mean that it is free to use.
Getting ready
We will need an existing Dynamics 365 for Operations project available.
How to do it...
To create the service wrapper for the...
