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Represents an entity such as a customer or sales order that is registered in the Business Data Catalog.

The Entity type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Actions	Gets a collection of actions associated with the entity.
	AssociationsWithEntityAsDestination	Gets a collection of associations defined in the LobSystem object that have the entity as the destination entity.
	AssociationsWithEntityAsSource	Gets a collection of Associationobjects defined in the LobSystem object that have the entity as the source entity.
	DefaultAction	Gets the action that is set as default for the entity.
	DefaultDisplayName	Gets the default display name of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Description	Sets or gets the description of the entity.
	EstimatedInstanceCount	Sets or gets the estimated instance count for the entity in the business application.
	Id	Gets the unique ID of the metadata object from the metadata repository. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Identifiers	Gets a collection of identifiers defined for the entity in the Business Data Catalog.
	IsCached	Indicates whether this metadata object is cached or not. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	LobSystem	Sets or gets the LobSystem object that the entity belongs to.
	LocalizedDisplayName	Gets or sets the localized display name for the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	LocalizedDisplayNames	Gets all the localized display names available for this metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	MethodInstances	Gets a collection of MethodInstance objects defined for the entity in the Business Data Catalog.
	Methods	Gets a collection of methods defined for the entity in the Business Data Catalog.
	Name	Gets or sets the name of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Properties	Gets all the properties that belong to this metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	ContainsDefaultAction	Indicates whether the entity contains a default action.
	ContainsLocalizedDisplayName	Indicates whether the metadata object contains a localized display name. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	CopyAclAcrossChildren	A virtual method that is designed to copy the list of access control entries (ACEs) associated with the metadata object to all of its children metadata objects. Each individually securable metadata object inherits from this class and provides its own implementation of this method. (Inherited from IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.)
	Delete	Deletes the entity from the LobSystem object. (Overrides AccessControlledMetadataObject.Delete().)
	DeleteInternal	When overridden in a derived class, deletes the metadata object and all of its children as per the specified SQL command. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetAccessControlList	A virtual method that is designed to return the list of access control entries (ACEs) associated with the metadata object registered in the Business Data Catalog. Each individually securable metadata object inherits from this class and provides its own implementation of this method. (Inherited from IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.)
	GetAssociationView	Gets the list of fields in the Association MethodInstance view of an entity
	GetById	Gets an entity given its ID.
	GetFinderView	Represents the List of fields in the Finder view of an entity
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetIndividuallySecurableMetadataObjectChildren	Gets the Method and MethodInstance objects defined for the entity. (Overrides IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.GetIndividuallySecurableMetadataObjectChildren().)
	GetNearestIndividuallySecurableMetadataObjectAncestor	Returns the nearest individually securable ancestor. Of the 13 metadata objects, only LobSystem, Entity, Method, and MethodInstance have their own individually securable access control list (ACL). Other metadata objects inherit the ACL from their immediate individually securable parent. (Inherited from IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.)
	GetSpecificFinderView	Gets the list of fields in the SpecifcFinder view of an entity.
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetViewDefinition	Gets the definition for a specified ViewAccessor method.
	HasFinder	Indicates whether the entity has a Finder method defined.
	HasSpecificFinder	Indicates whether the entity has a SpecificFinder method defined.
	IsPrimitive	Indicates whether the metadata object is of the specified primitive type. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	MergeXml
	Read	Reads an Entity object. (Overrides MetadataObject.Read().)
	ReadInternal	When overridden in a derived class, reads the metadata object from the metadata repository and creates an object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	ReadXml
	SetAccessControlList	Sets the access control list for an individually securable metadata object. (Inherited from IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)
	Update	Updates an entity with the specified changes. (Overrides AccessControlledMetadataObject.Update().)
	UpdateInternal	Infrastructure. (Overrides MetadataObject.UpdateInternal(SqlCommand).)
	WriteXml	(Overrides IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.WriteXml(XmlWriter, PackageContents).)
	WriteXmlLocalizedNames	Writes the specified XML fragment containing localized names in the metadata repository. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	WriteXmlProperties	Writes the specified XML fragment containing properties in the metadata repository. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	WriteXmlSecurity(XmlWriter)	Writes the XML fragment containing security information to the metadata repository. (Inherited from IndividuallySecurableMetadataObject.)
	WriteXmlSecurity(XmlWriter, PackageContents)	Writes the XML fragment containing security information. (Inherited from AccessControlledMetadataObject.)

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Fields

	Name	Description
	version	Represents the version number of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)

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See Also

Reference

Entity Class

Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Administration Namespace