NavigationProperty Class

.NET Framework (current version)

Represents the navigation from one entity type to another entity type in the conceptual model .

Namespace: System.Data.Metadata.Edm
Assembly: System.Data.Entity (in System.Data.Entity.dll)

Inheritance Hierarchy

public ref class NavigationProperty sealed : EdmMember

	Name	Description
	BuiltInTypeKind	Gets the built-in type kind for this NavigationProperty.(Overrides MetadataItem::BuiltInTypeKind.)
	DeclaringType	Gets the type on which this member is declared.(Inherited from EdmMember.)
	Documentation	Gets or sets the documentation associated with this type.(Inherited from MetadataItem.)
	FromEndMember	Gets the "from" relationship end member in this navigation.
	MetadataProperties	Gets the list of properties of the current type.(Inherited from MetadataItem.)
	Name	Gets the name of this member.(Inherited from EdmMember.)
	RelationshipType	Gets the relationship type that this navigation property operates on.
	ToEndMember	Gets the "to" relationship end member of this navigation.
	TypeUsage	Gets the instance of the TypeUsage class that contains both the type of the member and facets for the type.(Inherited from EdmMember.)

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object^)	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
	GetDependentProperties()	Gets the foreign key properties for a navigation property that is on the dependent end of a referential constraint.
	GetHashCode()	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance.(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString()	Returns the name of this member.(Inherited from EdmMember.)

For more information about how to use the NavigationProperty in a conceptual model, see NavigationProperty Element (CSDL).

.NET Framework
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.