EntityType Class
Represents a particular type of data, such as a customer entity or an order entity in a conceptual model.
Assembly: System.Data.Entity (in System.Data.Entity.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Abstract | Gets a value indicating whether this type is abstract or not. (Inherited from EdmType.) |
![]() | BaseType | Gets the base type of this type.(Inherited from EdmType.) |
![]() | BuiltInTypeKind | Gets the built-in type kind for this EntityType.(Overrides MetadataItem::BuiltInTypeKind.) |
![]() | Documentation | Gets or sets the documentation associated with this type.(Inherited from MetadataItem.) |
![]() | FullName | Gets the full name of this type.(Inherited from EdmType.) |
![]() | KeyMembers | Gets the list of all the key members for the current entity or relationship 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.) |
![]() | NavigationProperties | Gets the navigation properties of this EntityType. |
![]() | Properties | Gets the list of properties for this EntityType. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Equals(Object^) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize() | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetCollectionType() | Returns an instance of the CollectionType whose element type is this type. (Inherited from EdmType.) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetReferenceType() | Returns a RefType object that references this EntityType. |
![]() | GetType() | |
![]() | MemberwiseClone() | |
![]() | ToString() | Returns the full name of this type.(Inherited from EdmType.) |
For more information, see Entity Type (EDM).
Available since 3.5
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.


