VirtualCatalog Members

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A type of product catalog whose data is built from other catalogs.

The VirtualCatalog type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	AddLanguage	Adds the given language to the current catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	AddPriceRule	Adds a pricing rule from a base catalog to the virtual catalog.
	AddSpecificationSearchClause	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead, with the CatalogContext specification search methods. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	AddVirtualCatalogRule	Adds an inclusion or exclusion rule from a base catalog to the current virtual catalog.
	BeginSpecificationSearch	Overloaded.
	CreateCategory	Overloaded.
	DeleteCategory	Deletes the specified Category from the current catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	DeleteItems	Overloaded.
	Dispose	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Releases all resources used by the ProductCatalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	FixUpProxyDataObject	Method to fix the missing values in the proxy data object. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	GetCatalogAttributes	Obsolete. (Obsolete) CatalogAttributes are removed, use Information instead. Returns a DataSet with the attributes of the catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	GetCategory	Overloaded.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetProduct	Overloaded.
	GetProductVariant	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use GetVariant() and Variant.Information instead. Gets a product variant record from the catalog system. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	GetRootCategories	Overloaded.
	GetRootCategory	Overloaded.
	GetRootProducts	Overloaded.
	GetSpecificationSearchClauses	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetVariant	Overloaded.
	GuaranteedSpecificationSearch	Overloaded.
	HasProperty	Returns true if the underlying dataset contains the specified property. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	HookUpDependentCatalogs	Hook up DataSet events for the DependentCatalogs. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	HookUpInformation	Hook up DataSet events for the Catalog Information. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	HookUpProperties	Hook up DataSet events for the Catalog Properties. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Initialize	This method follows the "Template Method" pattern, enforcing the initialization pattern. (Inherited from CatalogObject.)
	InitializeEventHandlers	Initialize the dataset event handlers for this object. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	IsPropertyNull	Gets a value indicating whether the specified property contains a nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) value. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	PerformSpecificationSearch	Overloaded.
	PurgeDeletedItems	Purges the deleted catalogs, products and variants from the catalog system for this catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Rebuild	Overloaded. This method starts a catalog rebuild (if the catalog is in need of being rebuilt.)
	Refresh	Reloads the object from the web service. (Inherited from MultilingualCatalogObject.)
	RegenerateFullTextIndexes	Overloaded.
	RemoveLanguage	Removes the given language from the current catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	RemovePriceRule	Removes a pricing rule from the current virtual catalog.
	RemoveSpecificationSearchClause	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use the SpecificationSearch class instead with the CatalogContext specification search methods. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	RemoveVirtualCatalogRule	Removes an inclusion or exclusion rule from a base catalog.
	Save	Overloaded.
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)
	UpdateItems	Overloaded.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	ActiveLanguage	Gets or sets the active language for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	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. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	DependentCatalogs	Gets a CatalogsDataSet containing all the dependent catalogs for this catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	IdentifyingProductProperty	Gets the identifying product property for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	IdentifyingVariantProperty	Gets the identifying variant property for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Information	Gets the information for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	IsVirtualCatalog	Gets a value to indicate if the current instance is a BaseCatalog or a VirtualCatalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Item	Gets or sets the properties of this ProductCatalog, based upon the specified property name. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Languages	Gets a collection of the languages for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	Name	Gets the name of the catalog in the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	PriceRules	Gets a CatalogPricingRulesDataSet containing price rules for the current virtual catalog.
	PropertiesInCatalog	Gets a collection of properties in the catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	PropertyNames	Gets a ReadOnlyStringCollection containing the names of the properties present in this catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	ReportingLanguage	Gets or sets the reporting language for the current instance. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	SourceCatalogs	Gets the list of catalogs included in this virtual catalog.
	SpecificationSearchableCategories	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Use SpecificationSearchableCategoryCollection instead. Gets a ReadOnlyStringCollection containing the names of the specification searchable categories in this catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	SpecificationSearchableCategoryCollection	Gets a CategoryCollection containing the names of the specification searchable categories in this catalog. (Inherited from ProductCatalog.)
	VirtualCatalogRules	Gets a CatalogVirtualCatalogRulesDataSet containing the inclusion and exclusion rules for the current virtual catalog.

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See Also

Reference

VirtualCatalog Class

Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog Namespace