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EntitySet Class

.NET Framework 4

Represents an entity set in a conceptual model. An EntitySet for an EntityType contains instances of the EntityType or any of its subtypes. More than one EntitySet can be defined by using the same EntityType.

System.Object
  System.Data.Metadata.Edm.MetadataItem
    System.Data.Metadata.Edm.EntitySetBase
      System.Data.Metadata.Edm.EntitySet

Namespace:  System.Data.Metadata.Edm
Assembly:  System.Data.Entity (in System.Data.Entity.dll)
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public class EntitySet : EntitySetBase

The EntitySet type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public property BuiltInTypeKind Gets the built-in type kind for this EntitySet. (Overrides EntitySetBase.BuiltInTypeKind.)
Public property Documentation Gets or sets the documentation associated with this type. (Inherited from MetadataItem.)
Public property ElementType Gets the entity type of this EntitySet.
Public property EntityContainer Gets the entity container of the current entity or relationship set. (Inherited from EntitySetBase.)
Public property MetadataProperties Gets the list of properties of the current type. (Inherited from MetadataItem.)
Public property Name Gets the name of the current entity or relationship set. (Inherited from EntitySetBase.)
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  Name Description
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns the name of the current entity or relationship set. (Inherited from EntitySetBase.)
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For more information about the entity sets in a conceptual model, see Entity Sets (EDM).

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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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