RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog.GetEntities method (String, String)
Gets the external content types for the specified namespace and 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 ( _
namespace As String, _
wildcardedName As String _
) As INamedEntityDictionary
'Usage
Dim instance As RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog
Dim namespace As String
Dim wildcardedName As String
Dim returnValue As INamedEntityDictionary
returnValue = instance.GetEntities(namespace, _
wildcardedName)
public INamedEntityDictionary GetEntities(
string namespace,
string wildcardedName
)
Parameters
namespace
Type: System.StringThe namespace that contains the external content types.
wildcardedName
Type: System.StringA name using a wildcard.
Return value
Type: Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel.Collections.INamedEntityDictionary
The external content types for the specified namespace and whose names match the specified wildcard string.
Implements
IMetadataCatalog.GetEntities(String, 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.
See also
Reference
RemoteSharedFileBackedMetadataCatalog class