CodeActivity<TResult>.CacheMetadata Method (CodeActivityMetadata)
Creates and validates a description of the activity’s arguments, variables, child activities, and activity delegates.
Assembly: System.Activities (in System.Activities.dll)
Parameters
- metadata
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Type:
System.Activities.CodeActivityMetadata
The activity’s metadata that encapsulates the activity’s arguments, variables, child activities, and activity delegates.
The workflow runtime uses the default implementation of CacheMetadata to ensure correct construction of a workflow as well as to manage run-time relationships and lifetime rules. The default implementation of CacheMetadata examines the public members of the activity type using the type’s TypeDescriptor. These public members are of type Argument, Variable, T:System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T:System.Activities.Variable>, Activity, T:System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T:System.Activities.Activity>, or ActivityDelegate. You can override this method to customize the building of the activity’s run-time description and to provide custom validation logic. Any exceptions that are thrown from CacheMetadata are not treated as validation errors. These exceptions will escape from the call to Validate and must be handled by the caller.
Available since 4.0