Provides for deferred loading and relationship maintenance for the singleton side of a one-to-many relationship in a LINQ to SQL application.
(in System.Data.Linq.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Structure EntityRef(Of TEntity As Class)
Dim instance As EntityRef(Of TEntity)
public struct EntityRef<TEntity>
where TEntity : class
generic<typename TEntity>
where TEntity : ref class
public value class EntityRef
JScript does not support generic types or methods.
Type Parameters
- TEntity
The type of the target entity.
This class is used in combination with EntitySet<(Of <(TEntity>)>).
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003
The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5
Reference