CRM 4 Metadata: Working with Labels

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 mitch  Print 1 comment

As you know, CRM 4.0 introduced multi-language features into the product.  This means a slight change in the way we retrieve metadata related to Entity names.

The DisplayName property for an Entity has been changed slightly to ensure that you always have access to the localized version of the Entity name.  A sub-property called UserLocLabel has been added to retrieve the label for the language of the current user.

The only issue is sometimes that value does not exist ( a very rare event, but you need to code for it anyway ).

Modifying code from the CRM 4.0 SDK, I've created the following method to return either the localized label for the Entity or just the logical name, should the actual label not exist:

private string RetrieveDisplayName(EntityMetadata entity)
{
    string displayName = string.Empty;

    if (entity.DisplayName.UserLocLabel != null)
    {
        displayName = entity.DisplayName.UserLocLabel.Label.ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        displayName = entity.LogicalName.ToString();
    }

    return displayName;
}

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