LinqPad is a great tool to quickly query CRM and export the records you want, for further processing. LinqPad Driver for Dynamics CRM is what this post is about – specifically on how to use “FormattedValues” in your queries. There are formatted values for Money, Optionset and DateTime. I will demonstrate on how to use Optionset text values in where condition.

For example this is how you can query all the open opportunities.

from q in OpportunitySet.AsEnumerable()
where q.FormattedValues["statecode"].ToLower() == "open"
select new { q.CreatedOn, q.Id, StateCodeName = q.FormattedValues["statecode"], q.StateCode }

The critical bit here is the “AsEnumerable”. If you don’t convert your set to an Enumerable, you would get this error.

There is a another LinqPad Driver for CRM (https://github.com/kenakamu/CRMLinqPadDriverWebAPI), but you wont be able to run similar query as WebAPI doesn’t seem to be exposing the “FormattedValues” property for each record.