Creating a lead programmatically in CRM Online

Question

I have customized the lead entity in CRM for our business, is there a mechanism in CRM Online via the webservices that I can invoke to insert new records as a Lead in CRM from our local database? I cant find the correct details in Dynamics CRM Online's API. Please help! Thanks. This is in C#.

Answer 1

Use the Simplified Connection

MS Dynamics CRM online 2011 - Authentication issues

and after create the records. The metadata of the Lead entity is here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334250(v=crm.5).aspx

Answer 2

Create your lead and define their attributes and save it

Entity lead = new Entity("lead");

// definition of lead attributes goes here
// lead.Attributes["xxxx"] = yyyy;

service.Create(lead);