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How to retrieve all accounts from CRM in C#?

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hello! Right now I'm using the QuickStart project in Visual Studio that is provided by Microsoft to connect to Dynamics and retrieve/update/delete records, but there's one thing that I haven't found a solution for. Is there a way to select all accounts without using a unique value for reference (ex. user id, account name, email)? I need to be able to retrieve ALL of my accounts (which will never be above about 100 total). I would provide sample code for what I have tried, but I don't know where to start. I AM successfully connecting and I CAN retrieve accounts with unique identifiers.

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  • Bruno Maciel Servulo Profile Picture
    Bruno Maciel Servulo 125 on at
    RE: How to retrieve all accounts from CRM in C#?

    Maybe you're seeing deactivated accounts. Double check what view you're currently using.

    Just as a small suggestion, never use  new ColumnSet(true) because you'll fetch all fields and this is generally not wanted and it is also bad for performance.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How to retrieve all accounts from CRM in C#?

    Nope, I'm logging in with the same user on both. I suppose I could try accessing the contents of each entity and printing them so I could see what the extra accounts are?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How to retrieve all accounts from CRM in C#?

    Awesome! One more thing..  When I do Console.WriteLine(collAccounts.Entities.Count); it is printing out whatever the total number of accounts I have is, but with a constant 26 added to that. For example, if I delete all of the accounts, it prints 26. If I create 11 and run the program, it prints 37. Do you know where I could check to get rid of those extra accounts, or could you tell me what's causing this?

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