Example of Dynamic Entity Retrieval

public DynamicEntity RetrieveEntity()

{

            //variable initialization     

            TargetRetrieveDynamic target = new TargetRetrieveDynamic();         

            RetrieveRequest retrieveRequest = new RetrieveRequest();            

            RetrieveResponse retrieveResponse = null;                                       

            DynamicEntity entity = null;                                      

            target.EntityName = <name of entity here>

            target.EntityId = <id of entity here>

            //initialize request parameters

            retrieveRequest.ColumnSet = new AllColumns();

            retrieveRequest.ReturnDynamicEntities = true;

            retrieveRequest.Target = target;

            //build the response object

            retrieveResponse = (RetrieveResponse)GetCrmService().Execute(retrieveRequest);

            //retrieve the service order item from the response

            entity = (DynamicEntity)retrieveResponse.BusinessEntity;

            return entity;

}

private ArrayList RetrieveMultipleContacts(ICrmService crmService, Guid parentAccountId)

{

    //variable initialization

    ConditionExpression condition = new ConditionBLOCKED EXPRESSION;

    FilterExpression filter = new FilterBLOCKED EXPRESSION;

    QueryExpression query = new QueryBLOCKED EXPRESSION;

    RetrieveMultipleRequest request = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();

    ColumnSet cols = new ColumnSet();

    RetrieveMultipleResponse response = null;

    ArrayList contacts = new ArrayList();

    //Set the condition for retrieval

    condition.AttributeName = "parentcustomerid";

    condition.Operator = ConditionOperator.Equal;

    condition.Values = new string[] { parentAccountId.ToString() };

     //Set the properties of the filter.

    filter.FilterOperator = LogicalOperator.And;

    filter.AddCondition(condition);

    //Set the attributes needed to be returned.  NOTE: The CRM Sdk has an erroneous example

    //of how to set the attributes for retrieval. 

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_line1");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_line2");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_line3");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_city");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_stateorprovince");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_postalcode");

    cols.Attributes.Add("address1_country");

    cols.Attributes.Add("telephone1");

    cols.Attributes.Add("fax");

    //Set the properties of the QueryExpression object.

    query.EntityName = EntityName.contact.ToString();

    query.ColumnSet = cols;

    query.Criteria = filter;

    //Set the query for the request and set the flag to return

    //dynamic entities

    request.Query = query;

    //retrieve the contacts

    response = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)crmService.Execute(request);

    foreach (BusinessEntity cont in response.BusinessEntityCollection.BusinessEntities)

    {

        contacts.Add(cont);

    }

    return contacts;

}