Category Members

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Used to manage a category in a catalog. This class is an abstract class derived from CatalogItem class.

The Category type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	AddParentCategory	Adds a category as a parent category of this category. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	AddRelationshipToCategory	Overloaded.
	AddRelationshipToProduct	Overloaded.
	Dispose	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Releases all resources use by the CatalogItem. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	FixUpProxyDataObject	(Private) Some fields in the Proxy Data Object may be null. (Overrides CatalogItem..::.FixUpProxyDataObject()()().)
	GetCategoryCollectionConfiguration	Creates a new CategoryConfiguration object with the configuration of the existing Category. (Overrides CatalogItem..::.GetCategoryCollectionConfiguration()()().)
	GetCategoryProperties	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Returns a DataSet that contains the properties for this category. Both the properties that are present in the definition of this category and the built-in properties are returned.
	GetChildCategories	Overloaded. Use this method to get the CategoryName, CatalogName, DefinitionName and DisplayName properties for the immediate child categories of this category.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetProductCollectionConfiguration	Creates a new ProductConfiguration object with the configuration of the existing Product.
	GetProducts	Overloaded. Use this method to get all properties for all of the products in this category object.
	GetRelatedCategories	Obsolete. (Obsolete) GetRelatedCategories should not be used, use RelatedCategories instead. Gets the categories related to the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	GetRelatedProducts	Obsolete. (Obsolete) GetRelatedProducts should not be used, use GetRelatedCategories instead. Gets the products related to the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	HasProperty	Returns true if the underlying dataset contains the specified property. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpAncestorCategories	Hook up dataset events for ancestor parent categories dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpCanonicalCategories	Hook up dataset events for canonical parent categories dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpChildCategories	Hook up dataset events for child categories dataset.
	HookUpChildProducts	Hook up dataset events for child product dataset.
	HookUpInformation	Hook up dataset events for information dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpParentCategories	Hook up dataset events for parent categories dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpRelatedCategories	Hook up dataset events for related categories dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	HookUpRelatedProducts	Hook up dataset events for related products dataset. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Initialize	This method follows the "Template Method" pattern, enforcing the initialization pattern. (Inherited from CatalogObject.)
	InitializeEventHandlers	(Private) Initializes the dataset event handlers for the datasets in this class. (Overrides CatalogItem..::.InitializeEventHandlers()()().)
	IsListPriceNull	Returns true for categories without list price values. Always returns false for other types. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	IsPropertyNull	Gets a value indicating whether the specified property contains a nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) value. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	Refresh	Overloaded. Reload the object from the web service or database.
	RemoveParentCategory	Removes the category as a parent of the current category. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	RemoveRelationshipToCategory	Removes an existing category relationship to the category in the catalog. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	RemoveRelationshipToProduct	Removes an existing product relationship to the product in the catalog. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Save	Overloaded.
	SetListPriceNull	Allows clearing the list price for the category, this can also be accomplished using the Information dataset.
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

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Properties

	Name	Description
	ActiveLanguage	Gets or sets the active language of the Catalog system. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	AncestorCategories	Gets a collection containing the ancestor categories for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	AncestorCategoryNames	Gets a collection containing names of all categories that are above this category in the category hierarchy. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	BaseCatalogName	Gets the base catalog name of this catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	CanonicalCategories	Gets a collection containing the canonical categories for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	CanonicalCategoryPath	Gets the CanonicalCategoryPath property that gets the names of the categories that for a canonical path to this category. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	CatalogClassType	Gets the catalog class type of this catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	CatalogContext	Gets the CatalogContext object. (Inherited from CatalogObjectBase.)
	CatalogName	Gets the catalog name for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	ChildCategories	Gets a CatalogItemsDataSet containing all the child categories in this category.
	ChildCategoriesCount	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Gets the number of child categories of this category.
	ChildCategoryNames	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Gets a ReadOnlyStringCollection containing the list of names of the child categories of this category.
	ChildProducts	Gets a CatalogItemsDataSet containing all the child products in this category.
	ChildProductsCount	Obsolete. (Obsolete) Gets the number of child products of this category.
	Configuration	Gets the configuration of this object.
	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.)
	DefinitionName	Gets the name of product or category definition used to create this item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	DisplayName	Gets or sets the DisplayName property for this catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Information	Gets the information for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	IsVirtualCatalog	Gets a value indicating whether this catalog item exists in a virtual catalog or a base catalog. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Item	Gets or sets the properties of this CatalogItem. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	ListPrice	Gets the List price for this product or product family. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	Name	Gets the name of the category.
	OriginalCategoryName	Gets the original category name for this category.
	ParentCategories	Gets a collection containing the parent categories for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	ParentCategoryNames	Gets a collection containing the names of the parent categories of this item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	PrimaryParentCategoryName	Gets or sets the primary parent category for the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	ProductCatalog	Gets a product catalog object for this objects product catalog. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	RelatedCategories	Returns the categories related to the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)
	RelatedProducts	Gets the products related to the current catalog item. (Inherited from CatalogItem.)

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See Also

Reference

Category Class

Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog Namespace