ProductCatalog Members

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The product catalog object provides access to the details of a product catalog (base or virtual), catalog search and product and category management.

The ProductCatalog type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	AddLanguage	Adds the given language to the current catalog.
	AddSpecificationSearchClause	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead, with the CatalogContext specification search methods.
	BeginSpecificationSearch	Overloaded. Specification search starting point.
	CreateCategory	Overloaded. Creates a Category in the current catalog.
	DeleteCategory	Deletes the specified Category from the current catalog.
	DeleteItems	Overloaded. Delete items from this catalog matching a search clause.
	Dispose	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Releases all resources used by the ProductCatalog.
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	FixUpProxyDataObject	Method to fix the missing values in the proxy data object. (Overrides CatalogObject..::.FixUpProxyDataObject()()().)
	GetCatalogAttributes	Obsolete. (Obsolete) CatalogAttributes are removed, use Information instead. Returns a DataSet with the attributes of the catalog.
	GetCategory	Overloaded. Retrieves a Category object for the specified category in the current catalog.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetProduct	Overloaded. Retrieves a Product object for the specified product in the current catalog.
	GetProductVariant	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use GetVariant() and Variant.Information instead. Gets a product variant record from the catalog system.
	GetRootCategories	Overloaded. (Obsolete) Root products and categories are obsolete, Use GetRootCategory instead.
	GetRootCategory	Overloaded. Retrieve the catalog root category.
	GetRootProducts	Overloaded. (Obsolete) Root products and categories are obsolete, use GetRootCategory instead.
	GetSpecificationSearchClauses	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods.
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetVariant	Overloaded. Retrieves a Variant object for the specified product and variant in the current catalog.
	GuaranteedSpecificationSearch	Overloaded. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods.
	HasProperty	Returns true if the underlying dataset contains the specified property. (Overrides CatalogObject..::.HasProperty(String).)
	HookUpDependentCatalogs	Hook up DataSet events for the DependentCatalogs.
	HookUpInformation	Hook up DataSet events for the Catalog Information.
	HookUpProperties	Hook up DataSet events for the Catalog Properties.
	Initialize	This method follows the "Template Method" pattern, enforcing the initialization pattern. (Inherited from CatalogObject.)
	InitializeEventHandlers	Initialize the dataset event handlers for this object. (Overrides CatalogObject..::.InitializeEventHandlers()()().)
	IsPropertyNull	Gets a value indicating whether the specified property contains a nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) value. (Overrides CatalogObject..::.IsPropertyNull(String).)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	PerformSpecificationSearch	Overloaded. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods.
	PurgeDeletedItems	Purges the deleted catalogs, products and variants from the catalog system for this catalog.
	Refresh	Reloads the object from the web service. (Inherited from MultilingualCatalogObject.)
	RegenerateFullTextIndexes	Overloaded. Regenerates the full-text indexes for the current catalog.
	RemoveLanguage	Removes the given language from the current catalog.
	RemoveSpecificationSearchClause	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods.
	Save	Overloaded. Saves the changes made to the current instance to the catalog system.
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)
	UpdateItems	Overloaded. Update items stored in a dataset retrieved from the catalog system in this catalog.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	ActiveLanguage	Gets or sets the active language for the current instance. (Overrides MultilingualCatalogObject..::.ActiveLanguage.)
	CatalogContext	Gets the CatalogContext object. (Inherited from CatalogObjectBase.)
	DataObject	Gets an object that is used to describe the internal properties of the catalog objects. (Inherited from CatalogObject.)
	DebugContext	Gets the DebugContext object. (Inherited from CatalogObjectBase.)
	DefaultLanguage	Gets or sets the default language for the current instance.
	DependentCatalogs	Gets a CatalogsDataSet containing all the dependent catalogs for this catalog.
	IdentifyingProductProperty	Gets the identifying product property for the current instance.
	IdentifyingVariantProperty	Gets the identifying variant property for the current instance.
	Information	Gets the information for the current instance.
	IsVirtualCatalog	Gets a value to indicate if the current instance is a BaseCatalog or a VirtualCatalog.
	Item	Gets or sets the properties of this ProductCatalog, based upon the specified property name. (Overrides CatalogObject..::.Item[([(String])]).)
	Languages	Gets a collection of the languages for the current instance.
	Name	Gets the name of the catalog in the current instance.
	PropertiesInCatalog	Gets a collection of properties in the catalog.
	PropertyNames	Gets a ReadOnlyStringCollection containing the names of the properties present in this catalog.
	ReportingLanguage	Gets or sets the reporting language for the current instance.
	SpecificationSearchableCategories	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use SpecificationSearchableCategoryCollection instead. Gets a ReadOnlyStringCollection containing the names of the specification searchable categories in this catalog.
	SpecificationSearchableCategoryCollection	Gets a CategoryCollection containing the names of the specification searchable categories in this catalog.

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See Also

Reference

ProductCatalog Class

Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog Namespace