TypeDescriptor.CreateAssociation(Object, Object) Method
Definition
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Creates a primary-secondary association between two objects.
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static void CreateAssociation(System::Object ^ primary, System::Object ^ secondary);public static void CreateAssociation (object primary, object secondary);static member CreateAssociation : obj * obj -> unitPublic Shared Sub CreateAssociation (primary As Object, secondary As Object)Parameters
Exceptions
One or both of the parameters are null.
primary is equal to secondary.
Remarks
The CreateAssociation method creates an association between a primary and a secondary object. Once an association is created, a designer or other filtering mechanism can add properties that route to either object into the primary object's property set. When a property invocation is made against the primary object, the GetAssociation method will be called to resolve the actual object instance that is related to its type parameter.
A WeakReference is used to maintain the association between the primary and secondary object; therefore, this method does not prevent either object from being finalized and reclaimed by garbage collection.
