Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

How to do it...

To create a data event handler, follow these steps:

1. Create a new ConReportManager class.
2. Open the table design for the table in question; in our case, double-click on the SalesConfirmHeaderTmp.ConReports table extension.
3. Expand Events and locate onInserting.

The onInserted event is too late as we want to fill in a field before the record is written; if we subscribed to onInserted, the data will not be saved.

4. Right-click on the event and choose Copy event handler method. This will create a code snippet, and place it in the paste buffer.
5. Open the ConReportManager class, and paste in the code generated by step 4 into the class body, as shown here:

class ConReportManager {     /// <summary>     ///     /// </summary>  /// <param name="sender"></param> ...