Unhandled Exception: System.TimeoutException: The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:01:59.9139778.Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding.

Question

Hi, 
I created a simple plugin and since i wanted to use Early Binding i added Xrm.cs file to my solution.After i tried registering the plugin (using the Plugin Registration Tool) the plugin does not gets registered and i get the below mentioned Exception.
Unhandled Exception: System.TimeoutException: The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:01:59.9139778. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this
operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.
Server stack trace: 
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SecurityChannelFactory`1.SecurityRequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)
Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.IOrganizationService.Update(Entity entity)
   at Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client.OrganizationServiceProxy.UpdateCore(Entity entity)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.PluginRegistration.RegistrationHelper.UpdateAssembly(CrmOrganization org, String pathToAssembly, CrmPluginAssembly assembly, PluginType[] type)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.PluginRegistration.PluginRegistrationForm.btnRegister_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
Inner Exception: System.TimeoutException: The HTTP request to 'https://demoorg172.api.crm.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc' has exceeded the allotted timeout of 00:01:59.9430000. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a
longer timeout.
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelUtilities.ProcessGetResponseWebException(WebException webException, HttpWebRequest request, HttpAbortReason abortReason)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
Inner Exception: System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory`1.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout)
And to my Surprise after i remove the Xrm.cs file from my solution the Plugin got registered!
Not understanding what exactly is the issue.
Any Suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shradha
  

Answer 1

Hello Shardha,
                        I really appreciate that you have faced this issue.This is really very strange issue and basically it occurs because of big size of your early bound class and slow internet
connection.
                        I would strictly recommend you to reduce the file size of your early bound class and then register.By default early bound class is created for all the entities which are
present in CRM(System entities as well custom entities).Such kind of early bound classes takes lots of time to register on server and hence timeout exception comes.
                        There is some standard define to reduce the size of early bound class.Please follow the link to get rid from big size of early bound class.
Create a new C# class library project in Visual Studio called SvcUtilFilter.
In the project, add references to the following:
CrmSvcUtil.exe(from sdk)   This exe has the interface we will implement.
Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll  (found in the CRM SDK).
System.Runtime.Serialization.
  Add the following class to the project:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Microsoft.Crm.Services.Utility;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Metadata;
namespace SvcUtilFilter
    /// <summary>
    /// CodeWriterFilter for CrmSvcUtil that reads list of entities from an xml file to
    /// determine whether or not the entity class should be generated.
    /// </summary>
    public class CodeWriterFilter : ICodeWriterFilterService
        //list of entity names to generate classes for.
        private HashSet<string> _validEntities = new HashSet<string>();
        //reference to the default service.
        private ICodeWriterFilterService _defaultService = null;
        /// <summary>
        /// constructor
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="defaultService">default
implementation</param>
        public CodeWriterFilter( ICodeWriterFilterService defaultService )
            this._defaultService = defaultService;
            LoadFilterData();
        /// <summary>
        /// loads the entity filter data from the filter.xml file
        /// </summary>
        private void LoadFilterData()
            XElement xml = XElement.Load("filter.xml");
            XElement entitiesElement = xml.Element("entities");
            foreach (XElement entityElement in entitiesElement.Elements("entity"))
                _validEntities.Add(entityElement.Value.ToLowerInvariant());
        /// <summary>
        /// /Use filter entity list to determine if the entity class should be generated.
        /// </summary>
        public bool GenerateEntity(EntityMetadata entityMetadata, IServiceProvider services)
            return (_validEntities.Contains(entityMetadata.LogicalName.ToLowerInvariant()));
        //All other methods just use default implementation:
        public bool GenerateAttribute(AttributeMetadata attributeMetadata, IServiceProvider services)
            return _defaultService.GenerateAttribute(attributeMetadata, services);
        public bool GenerateOption(OptionMetadata optionMetadata, IServiceProvider services)
            return _defaultService.GenerateOption(optionMetadata, services);
        public bool GenerateOptionSet(OptionSetMetadataBase optionSetMetadata, IServiceProvider services)
            return _defaultService.GenerateOptionSet(optionSetMetadata, services);
        public bool GenerateRelationship(RelationshipMetadataBase relationshipMetadata, EntityMetadata otherEntityMetadata, IServiceProviderservices)
            return _defaultService.GenerateRelationship(relationshipMetadata, otherEntityMetadata, services);
        public bool GenerateServiceContext(IServiceProvider services)
            return _defaultService.GenerateServiceContext(services);
This class implements the ICodeWriterFilterService interface.  This interface is used by the class generation
utility to determine which entities, attrributes, etc. should actually be generated.  The interface is very simple and just has seven methods that are passed metadata info and return a boolean indicating whether or not the metadata should be included
in the generated code file.   
For now I just want to be able to determine which entities are generated, so in the constructor I read from an XML
file (filter.xml) that holds the list of entities to generate and put the list in a Hashset.  The format of the xml is this:
<filter>
  <entities>
    <entity>systemuser</entity>
    <entity>team</entity>
    <entity>role</entity>
    <entity>businessunit</entity>
  </entities>
</filter>
Take a look at the methods in the class. In the GenerateEntity method, we can simply check the EntityMetadata parameter
against our list of valid entities and return true if it's an entity that we want to generate.
For all of the other methods we want to just do whatever the default implementation of the utility is.  Notice
how the constructor of the class accepts a defaultService parameter.  We can just save a reference to this default service and use it whenever we want to stick with the default behavior.  All of the other methods in the class just call the default
service.
To use our extension when running the utility, we just have to make sure the compiled DLL and the filter.xml file
are in the same folder as CrmSvcUtil.exe, and set the /codewriterfilter command-line argument when running the utility (as described in the SDK):
crmsvcutil.exe /url:http://<server>/<org>/XrmServices/2011/Organization.svc /out:sdk.cs  /namespace:<namespace> /codewriterfilter:SvcUtilFilter.CodeWriterFilter,SvcUtilFilter
/username:[email protected] /password:xxxx
That's it! You now have a generated sdk.cs file that is only a few hundred kilobytes instead of 5MB. 
One final note:  There is actually a lot more you can do with extensions to the code generation utility. 
For example: if you return true in the GenerateOptionSet method, it will actually generated Enums for each CRM picklist (which it doesn't normally do by default).
Also, the source code for this SvcUtilFilter example can be found here. 
Use at your own risk, no warranties, etc. etc. 
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