AssociationType Class

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm

Assembly:: EntityFramework.dll

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Describes an association/relationship between two entities in the conceptual model or a foreign key relationship between two tables in the store model. In the conceptual model the dependant class may or may not define a foreign key property. If a foreign key is defined the IsForeignKey property will be true and the Constraint property will contain details of the foreign keys

[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Maintainability", "CA1501:AvoidExcessiveInheritance")]
public class AssociationType : System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.RelationshipType

type AssociationType = class
    inherit RelationshipType

Public Class AssociationType
Inherits RelationshipType

Inheritance: Object

MetadataItem

GlobalItem

EdmType

StructuralType

EntityTypeBase

RelationshipType
AssociationType

Attributes: SuppressMessageAttribute

Properties

Abstract	Gets a value indicating whether this type is abstract or not. (Inherited from EdmType)
AssociationEndMembers	Gets the list of ends for this AssociationType.
BaseType	Gets the base type of this type. (Inherited from EdmType)
BuiltInTypeKind	Gets the built-in type kind for this AssociationType.
Constraint	Gets or sets the referential constraint.
Documentation	Gets or sets the documentation associated with this type. (Inherited from MetadataItem)
FullName	Gets the full name of this type. (Inherited from EdmType)
IsForeignKey	Gets the Boolean property value that specifies whether the column is a foreign key.
KeyMembers	Gets the list of all the key members for the current entity or relationship type. (Inherited from EntityTypeBase)
KeyProperties	Gets the list of all the key properties for this entity type. (Inherited from EntityTypeBase)
Members	Gets the list of members on this type. (Inherited from StructuralType)
MetadataProperties	Gets the list of properties of the current type. (Inherited from MetadataItem)
Name	Gets the name of this type. (Inherited from EdmType)
NamespaceName	Gets the namespace of this type. (Inherited from EdmType)
ReferentialConstraints	Gets the list of constraints for this AssociationType.
RelationshipEndMembers	Gets the list of ends for this relationship type. (Inherited from RelationshipType)

Methods

AddAnnotation(String, Object)	Adds or updates an annotation with the specified name and value. (Inherited from MetadataItem)
AddKeyMember(EdmMember)	Adds the specified property to the list of keys for the current entity. (Inherited from EntityTypeBase)
AddMember(EdmMember)	Adds a member to this type (Inherited from StructuralType)
Create(String, String, Boolean, DataSpace, AssociationEndMember, AssociationEndMember, ReferentialConstraint, IEnumerable<MetadataProperty>)	Creates a read-only AssociationType instance from the specified parameters.
GetCollectionType()	Returns an instance of the CollectionType whose element type is this type. (Inherited from EdmType)
RemoveAnnotation(String)	Removes an annotation with the specified name. (Inherited from MetadataItem)
RemoveMember(EdmMember)	Removes the specified key member from the collection. (Inherited from EntityTypeBase)
ToString()	Returns the full name of this type. (Inherited from EdmType)

Extension Methods

Navigate(RelationshipType, String, String, DbExpression)

Creates a new DbRelationshipNavigationExpression representing the navigation of a composition or association relationship.

Applies to