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AssociationAttribute Class

Designates a property to represent a database association, such as a foreign key relationship.

System.Object
  System.Attribute
    System.Data.Linq.Mapping.DataAttribute
      System.Data.Linq.Mapping.AssociationAttribute

Namespace:  System.Data.Linq.Mapping
Assembly:  System.Data.Linq (in System.Data.Linq.dll)
[AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Property|AttributeTargets.Field, AllowMultiple = false)]
public sealed class AssociationAttribute : DataAttribute

The AssociationAttribute type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone AssociationAttribute Initializes a new instance of the AssociationAttribute class.
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  Name Description
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone DeleteOnNull When placed on a 1:1 association whose foreign key members are all non-nullable, deletes the object when the association is set to null.
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone DeleteRule Gets or sets delete behavior for an association.
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone IsForeignKey Gets or sets the member as the foreign key in an association representing a database relationship.
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone IsUnique Gets or sets the indication of a uniqueness constraint on the foreign key.
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Name Gets or sets the name of a column. (Inherited from DataAttribute.)
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone OtherKey Gets or sets one or more members of the target entity class as key values on the other side of the association.
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Storage Gets or sets a private storage field to hold the value from a column. (Inherited from DataAttribute.)
Public property Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone ThisKey Gets or sets members of this entity class to represent the key values on this side of the association.
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  Name Description
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Equals Infrastructure. Returns a value that indicates whether this instance is equal to a specified object. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Protected method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetHashCode Returns the hash code for this instance. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Match When overridden in a derived class, returns a value that indicates whether this instance equals a specified object. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Protected method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by Silverlight for Windows Phone ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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Use this attribute to represent an association in a database, such as the relationship between a foreign key and a primary key.

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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