Tuple Class

Article
12/03/2008

Represents an ordered collection of members from different hierarchies.

Namespace: Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient
Assembly: Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient (in microsoft.analysisservices.adomdclient.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class Tuple

public sealed class Tuple

public ref class Tuple sealed

public final class Tuple

public final class Tuple

Remarks

A tuple consists of an ordered collection of members.

A tuple cannot contain more than one member from any single hierarchy.

In ADOMD.NET, a Tuple is used to represent a tuple by encapsulating the collection of Member objects that define the tuple. Tuple objects can be referenced only through the Tuples property of a Set.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.Tuple

Example

The following function, given a Tuple, examines the object and returns a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) string representation of the tuple:

Public Function GetTupleString(ByRef TupleToConvert As Tuple) As String
    If TupleToConvert Is Nothing Then
        Throw New System.ArgumentNullException("TupleToConvert")
    Else
        Dim tupleCount As Integer = TupleToConvert.Members.Count
        Dim tupleIndex As Integer = 0

        If tupleCount = 0 Then
            ' An empty tuple.
            Return "()"
        Else
            ' Iterate through each member in the Members collection,
            ' adding the value of the UniqueName property to a
            ' string.
            ' Because a tuple can represent many members, this
            ' example uses a StringBuilder object to improve
            ' string handling performance.
            Dim tupleString As New _
                System.Text.StringBuilder(15 * tupleCount)

            ' Tuples are framed with parentheses, with each member
            ' within a tuple separated by a comma.
            tupleString.Append("(")
            For tupleIndex = 0 To tupleCount - 1
                tupleString.Append( _
                TupleToConvert.Members(tupleIndex).UniqueName)
                If tupleIndex < (tupleCount - 1) Then
                    tupleString.Append(", ")
                End If
            Next
            tupleString.Append(")")

            Return tupleString.ToString
        End If
    End If
End Function

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms