How to: Create an Entity Using the Administration Object Model
Entities are the business objects, such as customer and sales order, in a business application. This topic shows how to use the Administration object model to create an entity. The example also creates an identifier for the new entity.
This topic shows how to create an entity using the object model. Replace EnterYourSSPNameHere in the code with your Shared Services Provider (SSP) name. Also, create an LobSystem instance and set connection parameters as shown in How to: Create an LobSystem Using the Administration Object Model.
Example
This example creates an entity called ProductModel from the AdventureWorks2000 database.
Prerequisites
Ensure a Shared Services Provider is already created.
Create an LobSystem instance and set connection parameters as shown in How to: Create an LobSystem Using the Administration Object Model.
Replace the constant value EnterYourSSPNameHere in the code with the name of your Shared Resource Provider.
Project References
Add the following Project References in your console application code project before running this sample:
Microsoft.SharePoint
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal
Microsoft.Office.Server
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Administration;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Infrastructure;
using WSSAdmin = Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;
using OSSAdmin = Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration;
namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointServer.Samples
{
class GetStartedAndCreateSystem
{
const string yourSSPName ="EnterYourSSPNameHere";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
SetupBDC();
CreateEntity();
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
Console.Read();
}
static void SetupBDC()
{
SqlSessionProvider.Instance().SetSharedResourceProviderToUse(yourSSPName);
}
static void CreateEntity()
{
LobSystemInstance mySysInstance = null;
LobSystemInstanceCollection sysInsCollection = ApplicationRegistry.Instance.GetLobSystemInstancesLikeName("AdventureWorksSampleFromCode");
foreach (LobSystemInstance sysInstance in sysInsCollection)
{
if (sysInstance.Name == "AdventureWorksSampleFromCode")
{
mySysInstance = sysInstance;
break;
}
}
IList<Entity> entityCollection = new List<Entity>(mySysInstance.LobSystem.Entities);
Entity newEntity = mySysInstance.LobSystem.Entities.Create("ProductModel", true);
EntityCollection entityColl = mySysInstance.LobSystem.Entities;
foreach (Entity entity in entityColl)
{
if (entity.Name == "ProductModel")
{
entity.Identifiers.Create("ProductModelID", true, "System.Int32");
break;
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Created the entity successfully.");
}
}
}