Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Administration Namespace

Allows the creation, reading, updating, and deletion of Business Data Catalog metadata objects in the Shared Services database.

The Administration object model has a relatively high latency and a delay of up to a minute before Business Data Catalog updates the cache in all the front-end Web and application servers in the deployment. Changes are immediate on the server where you make the change.

Developers and users of the Business Data Catalog administration user interface use the Administration object model to create and edit metadata.

NoteNote

The MetadataModel namespace allows you only to read the metadata objects from the metadata database. The metadata database is cached and fast, so clients that just need to query the metadata database for metadata information should use the MetadataModel object model.

  ClassDescription
Public classAccessControlledMetadataObjectRepresents a Business Data Catalog metadata object whose access can be controlled by permissions. All 13 administration metadata objects and ApplicationRegistry inherit from this class and therefore can be controlled by permissions. This class cannot be instantiated.
Public classActionRepresents an action in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classActionCollectionRepresents a collection of Action objects. Provides methods for creating and enumerating actions for an entity.
Public classActionParameterThe URL attribute of the Action object can take parameters. The ActionParameter object defines the parameters the action URL accepts.
Public classActionParameterCollectionRepresents a collection of ActionParameter objects.
Public classApplicationRegistryProvides access to all of the line-of-business (LOB) systems and LOB system instances registered in the Business Data Catalog. This is the top-level object in the Business Data Catalog's object model. It is the entry point for you to create, read, update and delete all the metadata objects including LobSystem, Entity and Method. The ApplicationRegistry object has its own ACL and a user should at least have the Edit right on it to create a new LobSystem.
Public classAssociationRepresents a relationship between two or more related entities.
Public classAssociationCollectionRepresents a collection of Association objects in a Business Data Catalog application.
Public classConcurrentModificationExceptionThe Business Data Catalog administration object model uses an optimistic concurrency model. Each object has a version associated with it in memory. When it is written to disk via an Update, the version number in memory is compared with the version on disk, and is incremented if they are the same. The update is failed by throwing this Exception if they differ; the user must .Read() the object from disk, discarding the current in memory changes and then retry the update.
Public classDuplicateMetadataObjectExceptionThis exception is thrown if you try to create a metadata object and an object with the same name already exists in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classEntityRepresents an entity such as a customer or sales order that is registered in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classEntityCollectionRepresents a collection of Entity objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate entities.
Public classExceededMetadataObjectLimitExceptionThis exception is thrown when the metadata object limit is exceeded.
Public classFilterDescriptorFilters are the fundamental way in which the Business Data Catalog captures user (or system) input and plumbs it through to the backend API invocation. FilterDescriptors describe where in a complex series of parameters, a filter value should be inserted. This is accomplished by 'tagging' the TypeDescriptors representing complex parameters of a Method definition to flag where the insertion should happen. It is important to note that the backend must supply the functionality for filtering; the FilterDescriptors merely form a mechanism to surface this to the end user. FilterDescriptor objects are owned (contained) inside Method objects. They are subsequently referred by TypeDescriptor objects.
Public classFilterDescriptorCollectionRepresents a collection of FilterDescriptor objects.
Public classIdentifierRepresents the persistent identity of entity instances. You can use the key to search for a specific entity instance or a group of entity instances of that entity by using the Business Data Catalog.
Public classIdentifierCollectionRepresents a collection of Identifier objects.
Public classIndividuallySecurableMetadataObjectRepresents a metadata object whose access can be individually controlled. Only LobSystem, Entity, Method, and MethodInstance objects are individually securable. The other metadata objects rely on their individually securable ancestor to propagate the permissions to them. This class cannot be instantiated.
Public classInvalidMetadataObjectExceptionThis exception is thrown if the metadata object you are trying to access or create is invalid.
Public classInvalidMetadataPropertyExceptionThis exception is thrown if a metadata property is invalid.
Public classLobSystemRepresents a business application registered in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classLobSystemCollectionRepresents a collection of LobSystem objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate LobSystem objects.
Public classLobSystemInstanceRepresents an instance of a business application registered in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classLobSystemInstanceCollectionRepresents a collection of LOBSystemInstance objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate LOBSystemInstance objects.
Public classLocalizedNameRepresents the string representation of a metadata object in a particular locale.
Public classLocalizedNameCollectionRepresents a collection of localized names.
Public classMetadataExceptionRepresents an exception thrown by a metadata object.
Public classMetadataObjectRepresents the abstract base class of the 13 metadata objects in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classMetadataObjectNotFoundExceptionThis exception is thrown if the requested metadata object cannot be found in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classMethodRepresents operations related to an entity that you can perform in the line-of-business (LOB) application.
Public classMethodCollectionRepresents a collection of methods. Provides methods to create and enumerate Method objects.
Public classMethodInstanceDescribes how to call a method. It is a reference to a method, plus the default values for the input parameters the method takes.
Public classMethodInstanceCollectionRepresents a collection of MethodInstance objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate MethodInstance objects.
Public classPackageFormatExceptionThis exception is thrown if there is an error in the XML of the package.
Public classParameterRepresents the in, inout, out and return parameters of each method.
Public classParameterCollectionRepresents a collection of Parameter objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate Parameter objects.
Public classParseContextStores parse state that is shared across multiple metadata objects while reading or importing objects.
Public classProfileLocationUndefinedExceptionThis exception is thrown if the profile location is undefined in the Business Data Catalog.
Public classProfileProvisionExceptionThis exception is thrown if there was an error while provisioning the profile page.
Public classPropertyProperties are typed values associated with metadata objects. Some properties control the behavior of the Business Data Catalog; others enhance features based on the Business Data Catalog such as Business Data Web Parts or business data in lists. Properties used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are documented under the relevant metadata object.
Public classPropertyCollectionRepresents a collection of Property objects.
Public classTypeDescriptorDefines the data type of a parameter for a method.
Public classTypeDescriptorCollectionRepresents a collection of TypeDescriptor objects. Provides methods to create and enumerate TypeDescriptor objects.
Public classViewA View denotes the schema, or the set of fields contained by an Entity Instance.

  EnumerationDescription
Public enumerationPackageContentsRepresents the type of information that needs to be imported into the metadata repository or read from XML.

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