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How to query on an Entity attribute key only when it's of type KeyValuePair ?

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Hi,
I have an entity contact with an attribute of type "KeyValuePair", the key name is "degree" and the value depends from one contact to another.
I need to set the value of the degree of each contact, so I want to basically write something like this :
contact.Attributes["degree"].Value=123;But this statement isn't accepted, it says that the attributes is expecting a KeyValuePair type not just a key, but I can't do that because that's what i want to set.
Can you please help ?
Thanks
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:28 AM
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Hi,
there is no such an attribute type as "KeyValuePair" for crm entities, please check the attribute definition inside your entity.
If for example is a whole number, just set in this way:contact["new_degree"] = 123;
and pay attention also to the logicalname (if is a custom attribute it will contain the prefix)
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- Proposed as answer by Guido PreiteMVP Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:32 AM
- Unproposed as answer by SB User Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:07 AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:32 AM -
Hi,
Try to add attribute in contact entity like :
contact.Attributes["new_degree"]=123;
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Vikram Singh. !!! My BlogTuesday, January 21, 2014 9:37 AM -
Hi Guido, Thank you for your reply.
I tried what you just wrote but it said : "Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type Entity"
EDIT:
That's the rest of this part in my code:
foreach (var contact in result.Entities)
{
var studentdegree = contact["degree"];............
}- Edited by SB User Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:51 AM more clarification
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:47 AM -
Hi _Vikram,
I've been trying to do this:
foreach (var contact in result.Entities)
{
var studentdegree = contact.Attributes["degree"];
.........
}also I've tried : contact.Attributes["degree"].Value;
but this is the error i receive :
- Edited by SB User Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:39 AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:38 AM