IAssociation Members

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Represents a relationship between two or more related external content types within external systems.

The IAssociation type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	AssociationGroup	Gets the association group for this association.
	DestinationReference	Gets a reference to the destination external content type.
	HasReturnTypeDescriptor	Determines whether the method instance has a return value. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	Id	Gets the identifier of the metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
	IsBound	Gets whether this association has all external content type references available.
	IsCached	Determines whether the metadata object is cached in memory. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
	IsDefault	Determines whether this method instance is the default instance for its type. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	MethodInstanceType	Gets the type of the method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	Name	Gets the name of the metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataStruct.)
	SourceReferences	Gets the collection of references to source external content types.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	ContainsLocalizedDisplayName	Determines whether this metadata object contains a localized display name. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
	GetAccessControlList	Retrieves the access control list (ACL) for this object. (Inherited from IAccessControlledMetadataObject.)
	GetDefaultDisplayName	Returns the default display name of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
	GetDestination	Gets the destination external content type of the association.
	GetFilters	Gets the filters of the Method that contains this method instance that are initialized with default values of this method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	GetLocalizedDisplayName	Returns the localized display name of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
	GetLocalizedNames	Returns the localized names of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
	GetMethod	Gets the method that this instance belongs to. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	GetProperties	Returns the properties of this metadata object. (Inherited from IMetadataObject.)
	GetReturnTypeDescriptor	Gets the type descriptor that corresponds to the structure returned by this method instance. (Inherited from IMethodInstance.)
	GetSources	Gets the source external content types in an association.

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See Also

Reference

IAssociation Interface

Microsoft.BusinessData.MetadataModel Namespace