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I am not understanding these Web API on the Microsoft page!!!!

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What in the world is going on here?

I am trying to find a simple tutorial to do an C# API call for a field....like from an Entity Account with account number 12345 and retrieve the account name John or something simple like that and this website sucks!!!

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334767.aspx

What in the world am I reading?

Why isn't there a beginner tutorial with just a simple hello world tutorial?

Account Numer: 1234

Account Name: Hello World

and then perhaps throw exception ("hello world!!")

Why is this code so convoluted. Man this CRM C# stuff sucks big time. Why isn't there a simple tutorial to show you how to install the plugin and then hello world api call?

Edit: What in heck is this???

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt770369.aspx

Why does this sample code have 500 lines? How in the world does a newbie is supposed to understand this?

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    Adrian Begovich 21,009 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: I am not understanding these Web API on the Microsoft page!!!!

    Hi Techrium,

    The target audience for these documents is developers. There are many tutorials that teach you how to setup plugins from scratch. Everything you need is in this article.

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    Techrium 30 on at
    RE: I am not understanding these Web API on the Microsoft page!!!!

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