Entity Members

Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

Represents an instance of an entity (a record).

The following tables list the members exposed by the Entity type.

Public Constructors

	Name	Description
	Entity	Overloaded. Initializes a new instance of the Entity class.

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Public Properties

	Name	Description
	Attributes	Gets or sets the collection of attributes for the entity.
	EntityState	Gets or sets the state of the entity.
	ExtensionData	Gets or sets the structure that contains extra data.
	FormattedValues	Gets of sets the collection of formatted values for the entity attributes.
	Id	Gets or sets the ID of the record represented by this entity instance.
	Item	Provides an indexer for the attribute values.
	LogicalName	Gets or sets the logical name of the entity.
	RelatedEntities	Gets or sets a collection of entity references (references to records).

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Public Methods

(see also Protected Methods)

	Name	Description
	Contains	Checks to see if there is a value present for the specified attribute.
	Equals	(inherited from Object)
	GetAttributeValue	Gets the value of the attribute.
	GetHashCode	(inherited from Object)
	GetType	(inherited from Object)
	ToEntity	Gets the entity as the specified type.
	ToEntityReference	Gets an entity reference for this entity instance.
	ToString	(inherited from Object)

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Protected Methods

	Name	Description
	Finalize	(inherited from Object)
	GetFormattedAttributeValue	Gets the formatted value of the attribute.
	GetRelatedEntities	Gets the collection of related entity instances for the specified relationship.
	GetRelatedEntity	Gets the related entity instance for the specified relationship.
	MemberwiseClone	(inherited from Object)
	SetAttributeValue	Sets the value of an attribute.
	SetRelatedEntities	Sets the collection of related entity instances for the specified relationship.
	SetRelatedEntity	Sets the related entity instance for the specified relationship.

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See Also

Reference

Entity Class
Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk Namespace

Other Resources

Use the Early Bound Entity Classes in Code
Use the Late Bound Entity Class in Code

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