1. Adxstudio Portals Training
Portal Development Basics

2. MasterPortal Helper Classes
PortalPage, PortalMasterPage, PortalUserControl, WebformPortalUserControl
Every Page Template, Master Page, User Control, and Web Form User Control you create, respectively, should inherit from these
Gives you access to:
XrmContext
ServiceContext
PortalContext (And convenience properties)

3. Portal Context
This allows us to always know the Website, Portal User Contact, Current Entity (based on the current site map node), and gives us a ServiceContext
These are all surfaced at the PortalPage as properties

4. Using the XrmContext Gives you access to the LINQ query Provider
Simple, quick
For more complicated queries use fetchXml

5. Late-Bound Methods
Dynamic methods can be used as an alternative for power users
Can create dynamic queries
Better performance
No need to code gen

6. Early-Bound Methods Strongly-typed classes
Allows for dot-through in code
Requires Code Generation (CrmSvcUtil.exe)

7. CrmSvcUtil
Necessary to run this utility if custom entities are to be queried using early-bound methods in code
Use the supplied .cmd file that comes with Adxstudio Portals for example usage
Requires various parameters to be supplied in order to function with adxstudio Portals:
/codeCustomization:"Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CodeGeneration.CodeCustomiza tion, Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CodeGeneration“
/namespace:Xrm
/serviceContextName: XrmServiceContext
/serviceContextPrefix: Xrm
/url, /out (as appropriate)