CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet

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The CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet class contains information about the properties in the catalog definitions in the Catalog System. You can access the DataRowCollection of the dataset’s data table by using the CatalogDefinitionProperties property. You can access each row in the collection by using the properties of the CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet..::.CatalogDefinitionProperty class.

The following table contains the strongly typed properties in this dataset.

Constraints

The CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet class defines a unique constraint on the DefinitionName and PropertyName columns.

Using the CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet Class

The following example demonstrates how to access the properties of the CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet class.

public static void UseDataset(CatalogContext context, string definitionName, string newPropertyName)
{
    // Get an existing definition.
    CatalogDefinition definition =   context.GetDefinition(definitionName);
    // Add an existing property to the definition and save the definition.
    definition.AddProperty(newPropertyName, DefinitionPropertyType.NormalProperty);
    definition.Save();

    // Iterate through the dataset and access each property name
    // and its order.
    // Write each item to the console.
    foreach( CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSet.CatalogDefinitionProperty definitionProperty in definition.DefinitionProperties.CatalogDefinitionProperties)
    {
        string propertyName = definitionProperty.PropertyName;
        DefinitionPropertyType propertyType = (DefinitionPropertyType)definitionProperty.PropertyType;
        int propertyOrder = definitionProperty.PropertyOrder;
        // Write the items to the console.
        Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}",propertyName, propertyOrder, propertyType);
    }
}

The CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSetSchema Class

The CatalogDefinitionPropertiesDataSetSchema class provides constants for all the built-in columns in the dataset and defines all the associated methods. The following table contains the associated methods for this class.

See Also

Other Resources

Typed Datasets in the Catalog System

Typed Datasets in the Inventory System