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Database.Views Property

Represents a collection of View objects. Each View object represents a view defined on the database.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny,  _
    GetType(View))> _
Public ReadOnly Property Views As ViewCollection
    Get
'Usage
Dim instance As Database
Dim value As ViewCollection

value = instance.Views

[SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View))]
public ViewCollection Views { get; }

[SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship::ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality::ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View))]
public:
property ViewCollection^ Views {
    ViewCollection^ get ();
}

[<SfcObjectAttribute(SfcContainerRelationship.ObjectContainer, SfcContainerCardinality.ZeroToAny, 
    typeof(View))>]
member Views : ViewCollection

function get Views () : ViewCollection

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ViewCollection
A ViewCollection object that represents all the views defined on the database.

Remarks

Specific views can be referenced by using this collection by specifying the name of the view. To add a new view to the collection, call the view constructor View.

Examples

'Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Dim srv As Server
srv = New Server

'Reference the AdventureWorks database.
Dim db As Database
db = srv.Databases("AdventureWorks")

'Display all the users in the database.
Dim us As User
For Each us In db.Users
   Console.WriteLine(us.Name)
Next