PrimitiveType Class

.NET Framework (current version)

Describes the .NET Framework primitive types, conceptual model primitive types, and storage provider-specific primitive types.

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

Inheritance Hierarchy

public ref class PrimitiveType sealed : SimpleType

	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 PrimitiveType.(Overrides MetadataItem::BuiltInTypeKind.)
	ClrEquivalentType	Returns an equivalent common language runtime (CLR) type of this PrimitiveType. Note that the ClrEquivalentType property always returns a non-nullable type value.
	Documentation	Gets or sets the documentation associated with this type.(Inherited from MetadataItem.)
	FacetDescriptions	Gets the list of facet descriptions for this PrimitiveType.
	FullName	Gets the full name of this type.(Inherited from EdmType.)
	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.)
	PrimitiveTypeKind	Gets a PrimitiveTypeKind enumeration value that indicates a primitive type of this PrimitiveType.

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object^)	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
	GetCollectionType()	Returns an instance of the CollectionType whose element type is this type. (Inherited from EdmType.)
	GetEdmPrimitiveType()	Returns the equivalent EdmType of this PrimitiveType.
	GetEdmPrimitiveType(PrimitiveTypeKind)	Returns the equivalent EdmType of a PrimitiveType.
	GetEdmPrimitiveTypes()	Returns the list of primitive types.
	GetHashCode()	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance.(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString()	Returns the full name of this type.(Inherited from EdmType.)

For more information, see Simple Types.

.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.