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Sample: Dump table definitions to a file (Microsoft Dataverse) | Microsoft Docs
This sample shows how to write out all the table definitions to an XML file.
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Sample: Dump table definitions to a file

This sample shows how to write out all table definitions to an XML file. It uses the RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest message.

The following sample creates a new file at \Entities\bin\Debug\EntityInfo.xml. You can open this file in Office Excel to see a tabular report. You may need this information to discover the entity type code for a custom table for use in reports.

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How to run this sample

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What this sample does

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.

How this sample works

In order to simulate the scenario described in What this sample does, the sample will do the following:

Setup

Checks for the current version of the org.

Demonstrate

  1. The RetrieveAllEntitiesRequest method retrieves the metadata.
  2. The StreamWriter creates an instance of StreamWriter to write text to a file.

Clean up

This sample creates no records. No cleanup is required.

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