Hi all,
I was wondering if there was any way to retrieve a strongly typed custom class in .net code.
I know it's possible with built in entities like account.
If not then how do you access and cast all the different field types.
Here's what i am currently using but it seems a bit sloppy and i'm unsure on how to cleanly get all the values
var query = new QueryExpression();
query.EntityName = "new_entity";
ColumnSet columns = new ColumnSet();
columns.Attributes.Add("new_name");
columns.Attributes.Add("ownerid"); //owner
columns.Attributes.Add("new_field1"); // lookup
columns.Attributes.Add("new_field2");
columns.Attributes.Add("new_field3"); // date
columns.Attributes.Add("new_field4"); // lookup
columns.Attributes.Add("new_field5"); // int
//...
query.ColumnSet = columns;
var crmService = CrmServiceUtility.GetCrmService("http://mywebsite", "site");
RetrieveMultipleRequest request = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();
request.Query = query;
request.ReturnDynamicEntities = true;
RetrieveMultipleResponse response = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)crmService.Execute(request);
foreach (BusinessEntity be in response.BusinessEntityCollection.BusinessEntities)
{
DynamicEntity de = (DynamicEntity)be;
foreach (Property prop in de.Properties)
{
// Don't really know how to do this part cleanly
}
}
Thanks in advance
