//create request to retrieve Webresource QueryByAttribute requestWebResource = new QueryByAttribute { EntityName = WebResource.EntityLogicalName, ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(true), }; requestWebResource.Attributes.AddRange("name"); requestWebResource.Values.AddRange("url/XML/TestData.xml"); WebResource webResource = null; EntityCollection webResourceCollection = organizationService.RetrieveMultiple(requestWebResource); if (webResourceCollection.Entities.Count == 0) throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException("Specified Webresource does not exist"); webResource = (WebResource)webResourceCollection.Entities[0]; byte[] binary = Convert.FromBase64String(webResource.Attributes["content"].ToString()); string resourceContent = UnicodeEncoding.UTF8.GetString(binary);