Getting the Default Record Type of a User for Event Creation in Salesforce

I have been twisting my head around in finding a solution for this simple task and I guess its worthwhile to share this information with everyone as I cannot find any solution related to my problem on Google or even in Developer Force. Eventually, it ended up calling their premier support for assistance, then after a week of emails sent back and forth, the answer was:

“you cannot get the default record type for user without logging to salesforce.com”

What that means is that you cannot get the default record type for a user if you are using a privileged account, you must use the users login credentials when performing the query, which defeats the purpose of having a super user account creating events for you programmatically.

Anyway, here is what I have initially done to get the default record type. At first, they suggested this solution in Java:

Schema.DescribeSObjectResult oSObjectResult = Event.SObjectType.getDescribe();
ListRecordTypeInfo> oRecTypeInfos = oSObjectResult.getRecordTypeInfos();

Schema.RecordTypeInfo has a method isDefaultRecordTypeMapping()

So I used that information to grab what I want in C#, so I created a method to extract that information:

public SforceService Authenticate()
{
    try
    {
        SforceService oSalesForceService = new SforceService();
        oSalesForceService.Timeout = 60000;

        // Set Proxy Details if you are using one
        WebProxy oWebProxy = new WebProxy(WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy.GetProxy(
            new Uri(oSalesForceService.Url.ToString())));
        oWebProxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
        oWebProxy.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
        oSalesForceService.Proxy = oWebProxy;

        //Initialize SalesForce Service
        LoginResult oLoginResult = oSalesForceService.login(sUserName, 
            string.Concat(sPassword, sToken));

        oSalesForceService.Url = oLoginResult.serverUrl;
        oSalesForceService.SessionHeaderValue = new SessionHeader();
        oSalesForceService.SessionHeaderValue.sessionId = oLoginResult.sessionId;
        GetUserInfoResult oUserInfo = oLoginResult.userInfo;

        return oSalesForceService;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

public string GetRecordType()
{
    SforceService oSalesForceService = Authenticate();

    string sRecordTypeId = "";

    DescribeSObjectResult oObjectResult = 
    oSalesForceService.describeSObject("Event");
    List<RecordTypeInfo> oRecTypeInfos = 
    oObjectResult.recordTypeInfos.ToList();
    foreach (RecordTypeInfo oRecTypeInfo in oRecTypeInfos)
    {
        if (oRecTypeInfo.defaultRecordTypeMapping == true)
        {
            sRecordTypeId = oRecTypeInfo.recordTypeId;
        }
    }
    return sRecordTypeId;
}

Using that will be an issue as it is not showing options on filtering it by Owner ID like what SalesForce has in other tables, so the result shown after I executed the method is the default record type of the privileged Account. So I thought I can go directly to the related tables perform SQL queries like such:

oQueryResult = oSalesForceService.query(
"Select Id, Name from RecordType where SobjectType = 
'Event' and IsActive = True and OwnerID = '" + sOwnerID +"'");

and might have some hope in there but after checking the RecordType and RecordTypeInfo, there is no field for Owner ID:

and in User class, there are no fields for Default record type.

So the only real solution for this as of this post date is to keep a local copy of the default record type per user or as a Global setting if you wish. So when I create event, I assign the RecordTypeId by getting it by the “Record Type Name” defaulted to a user which is stored locally.

oEvent.RecordTypeId = GetRecordTypeId(sUserDefaultRecordType);

public string GetRecordTypeId(string sRecordTypeName)
{
    SforceService oSalesForceService = Authenticate();

    QueryResult oQueryResult = null;

    oSalesForceService.QueryOptionsValue = new QueryOptions();
    oQueryResult = oSalesForceService.query(
"Select Id from RecordType where SobjectType = 'Event' 
and IsActive = True and Name = '" + sRecordTypeName + "'");

    if (oQueryResult.size != 0)
    {
        RecordType oRecordType = (RecordType)oQueryResult.records[0];
        return oRecordType.Id;
    }
    return null;
}

I hoped I helped someone out there with a similar situation as I have.