Entity Class

Dynamics CRM 2016

Other Versions

Updated: November 29, 2016

Applies To: Dynamics 365 (online), Dynamics 365 (on-premises), Dynamics CRM 2016, Dynamics CRM Online

Represents an instance of an entity (a record).

Namespace: Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk
Assembly: Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk (in Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll)

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
Microsoft.Xrm.SdkEntity

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	Name	Description
	Entity	Initializes a new instance of the Entity class.
	Entity	Initializes a new instance of the Entity class setting the entity name.
	Entity	Initializes a new instance of the Entity class. This was introduced with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1 and cannot be used with earlier versions.
	Entity	Initializes a new instance of the Entity class. This was introduced with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1 and cannot be used with earlier versions.
	Entity	Initializes a new instance of the Entity class. This was introduced with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1 and cannot be used with earlier versions.

	Name	Description
		Gets or sets the collection of attributes for the entity.
		Gets or sets the state of the entity.
		Gets or sets the structure that contains extra data.
		Gets of sets the collection of formatted values for the entity attributes.
		Gets or sets the ID of the record represented by this entity instance.
		Provides an indexer for the attribute values.
		Gets or sets the key attributes.
		Gets or sets the logical name of the entity.
		Gets or sets a collection of entity references (references to records).
		Gets or sets the row version

	Name	Description
	Contains	Checks to see if there is a value present for the specified attribute.
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetAttributeValue	Gets the value of the attribute.
	GetFormattedAttributeValue	Gets the formatted value of the attribute.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetRelatedEntities	Gets the collection of related entity instances for the specified relationship.
	GetRelatedEntity	Gets the related entity instance for the specified relationship.
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	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.
	ToEntity	Gets the entity as the specified type.
	ToEntityReference	Gets an entity reference for this entity instance.
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

Entity is the base class for all types of entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365. You use this class for both early and late bound programming.

Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.