RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog.GetEntities method (String)

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10/19/2013

Gets the external content types whose names match the specified wildcard string.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.BusinessData.MetadataModel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.BusinessApplications.Runtime (in Microsoft.Office.BusinessApplications.Runtime.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function GetEntities ( _
    wildcardedName As String _
) As INamespacedEntityDictionaryDictionary
'Usage
Dim instance As RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog
Dim wildcardedName As String
Dim returnValue As INamespacedEntityDictionaryDictionary

returnValue = instance.GetEntities(wildcardedName)

public INamespacedEntityDictionaryDictionary GetEntities(
    string wildcardedName
)

Parameters

wildcardedName
Type: System.String

A name using a wildcard.

Return value

Type: Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel.Collections.INamespacedEntityDictionaryDictionary
The external content types whose names match the specified wildcard string.

Implements

IMetadataCatalog.GetEntities(String)

Remarks

BDC uses ‘*’ as the wildcard character and the ‘\’ as the escape character. For example, to obtain all external content types which have names starting with “C”, and ending with “s*12”, this method should be called with “C*s\*12”. This will return both “Customers*12” and “Cs*12”, but not “CratesOf12” or “Cs\*12”.

Object instances obtained from an instance of RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog can only be used with object instances obtained from the same instance of RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog. Using incompatible object instances with each other causes data corruption and other unexpected behavior.

Examples

Code Snippet: Get the RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog on the Client

Code Snippet: Enumerate External Content Types in the Client Cache