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Updating accounts - MS CRM 2013

Hello.

I have a requirement where one of the fields of the account entity called ArabicName needs to be updated from our legacy database.

My logic is to retrieve the account based on the accountnumber and then use the below code to update the field.

Entity account = new Entity("account");
account.Attributes["accountnumber"] = 528580;
account.Attributes["arabicname"] = "xyz";
_service.Update(account);

However the code does not seem to work. My logic is incorrect and i feel that the record needs to be retrieved based on the GUID. Could you please provide any sample code that will help me to achieve the required functionality ?

Regards.

Easwaran Paramasivam

I hope in your Entity framework Context is being used. In this case below code could help you.

Assuming that context exists and Account is a class which holds the account information.

Account account = context.Accounts(I => i.accountnumber = 528580)
account.ArabicNme = "xyz";
_service.Update(account);

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Please refer http://www.dotnetcurry.com/entityframework/619/add-update-delete-objects-entity-framework and http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37932/Simple-Sample-with-Entity-Framework for idea.

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Apologies for the delay in my response. The delay was due to some personal emergency.