Creating a service

There are three parts to creating a new service:

• Create a class that contains the business logic
• Create a service that has operations that reference operations to the class's methods
• Create a service group

The service group is a collection of one or more services, and acts as the service reference should we consume it within Visual Studio. We will see how this translates to a URI in the next recipe.

In this example, we will have two service operations: one to get a list of vehicles, and one to update a vehicle's group. The XML documentation has been omitted to save space.

Getting ready

We will just need a Dynamics 365 for Operations visual studio project open.

How to do it...

To create the service, follow these steps:

1. First, create a new class that will hold our service methods and name this class ConWHSVehicleServices.
2. The first service will be to update the Vehicle service group, for which we have a contract and processing class already created (ConWHSVehicleGroupChangeContract...