Object Metadata Updated: Salesforce Download

For developers who need the actual .object or .field-meta.xml files for version control or deployment, with the Salesforce Extension Pack is the standard. Steps to Download via VS Code:

Standard Salesforce "Data Export" tools only export the records (the data), not the metadata (the field definitions). To get object metadata into Excel, use: salesforce download object metadata

Use tools like Packmagics to select an object and immediately download a CSV containing all field names, types, and picklist values. For developers who need the actual