MetadataWorkspace.GetType Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm

Assembly:

EntityFramework.dll

Overloads

GetType(String, String, DataSpace)	Returns an EdmType object by using the specified type name, namespace name, and data model.
GetType(String, String, Boolean, DataSpace)	Returns an EdmType object by using the specified type name, namespace name, and data model.

GetType(String, String, DataSpace)

Returns an EdmType object by using the specified type name, namespace name, and data model.

[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Naming", "CA1716:IdentifiersShouldNotMatchKeywords", MessageId="GetType")]
public virtual System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.EdmType GetType (string name, string namespaceName, System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.DataSpace dataSpace);

override this.GetType : string * string * System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.DataSpace -> System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.EdmType

Parameters

name

String

The name of the type.

namespaceName

String

The namespace of the type.

dataSpace

DataSpace

The conceptual model on which the type is searched.

Returns

EdmType

An EdmType object that represents the type that matches the given type name and the namespace name in the specified data model. If there is no matched type, this method returns null.

Attributes

SuppressMessageAttribute

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Thrown if the space is not a valid space. Valid space is either C, O, CS or OCSpace

GetType(String, String, Boolean, DataSpace)

Returns an EdmType object by using the specified type name, namespace name, and data model.

[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Naming", "CA1716:IdentifiersShouldNotMatchKeywords", MessageId="GetType")]
public virtual System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.EdmType GetType (string name, string namespaceName, bool ignoreCase, System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.DataSpace dataSpace);

override this.GetType : string * string * bool * System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.DataSpace -> System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.EdmType

Parameters

name

String

The name of the type.

namespaceName

String

The namespace of the type.

ignoreCase

Boolean

true to perform the case-insensitive search; otherwise, false.

dataSpace

DataSpace

The conceptual model on which the type is searched.

Returns

EdmType

An EdmType object.

Attributes

SuppressMessageAttribute

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Thrown if the space is not a valid space. Valid space is either C, O, CS or OCSpace