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Sample: Dump column definitions to a file (Microsoft Dataverse) | Microsoft Docs |
This sample showcases how to dump column definitions to a file. |
04/03/2022 |
mkannapiran |
kamanick |
jdaly |
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This sample shows how to write out all the column definitions to an XML
file. It uses the RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest message.
[!div class="nextstepaction"] SDK for .NET: Dump column definitions information to a file sample code
The following sample creates a new file at \DumpAttributeInfo\bin\Debug\AllAttributeDesc.xml
. You can open this file in Office Excel to see a tabular report.
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The RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest
message is intended to be used in a scenario that contains data that is needed to retrieve metadata information about all the tables.
In order to simulate the scenario described in What this sample does, the sample will do the following:
Checks for the current version of the org.
- The
RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest
method retrieves the metadata. - The
StreamWriter
creates an instance of StreamWriter to write text to a file.
This sample creates no records. No cleanup is required.
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