MSCRM 2013 Image Data Types SDk

• You can access images via a URL. The URL of the image is a read only value available via the SDK off of the Image as an absolute address. Image URLs behave in a similar fashion to Web Resources and Attachments. The primary difference is that images are returned as binary data and Web Resources and Attachments are returned as base-64 encoded MIME types.
• ImageAttributeMetadata is being added to the MetadataService class. This class inherits from AttributeMetadata and represents the metadata for an attribute of type Image

• Images can be returned as part of FetchXML queries or RetrieveMultiple calls. There will be an option to return binary data, URL, or both.
• Binary data must be requested explicitly. A query that specifies “All” fields would only return the image URL. This accounts for the scenario where a user inadvertently queries all fields on an entity with a large number of images.
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook does not have direct support for images in CRM 2013 so images will not be synced. Image fields would be ignored in query results and offline view filters.