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Represents a relationship between two or more related external content types within external systems.

The IAssociation type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public property AssociationGroup Gets the association group for this association.
Public property DestinationReference Gets a reference to the destination external content type.
Public property HasReturnTypeDescriptor Determines whether the method instance has a return value. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public property Id Gets the identifier of the metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
Public property IsBound Gets whether this association has all external content type references available.
Public property IsCached Determines whether the metadata object is cached in memory. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
Public property IsDefault Determines whether this method instance is the default instance for its type. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public property MethodInstanceType Gets the type of the method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public property Name Gets the name of the metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
Public property SourceReferences Gets the collection of references to source external content types.

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method ContainsLocalizedDisplayName Determines whether this metadata object contains a localized display name. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
Public method GetAccessControlList Retrieves the access control list (ACL) for this object. (Inherited from IAccessControlledMetadataObject.)
Public method GetDefaultDisplayName Returns the default display name of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
Public method GetDestination Gets the destination external content type of the association.
Public method GetFilters Gets the filters of the Method that contains this method instance that are initialized with default values of this method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public method GetLocalizedDisplayName Returns the localized display name of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
Public method GetLocalizedNames Returns the localized names of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
Public method GetMethod Gets the method that this instance belongs to. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public method GetProperties Returns the properties of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
Public method GetReturnTypeDescriptor Gets the type descriptor that corresponds to the structure returned by this method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
Public method GetSources Gets the source external content types in an association.

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See Also

Reference

IAssociation Interface

Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel Namespace