DbCollectionEntry<TEntity,TElement> Class

Definition

Namespace:

System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure

Assembly:

EntityFramework.dll

Instances of this class are returned from the Collection method of DbEntityEntry<TEntity> and allow operations such as loading to be performed on the an entity's collection navigation properties.

public class DbCollectionEntry<TEntity,TElement> : System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbMemberEntry<TEntity,System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<TElement>> where TEntity : class

type DbCollectionEntry<'Entity, 'Element (requires 'Entity : null)> = class
    inherit DbMemberEntry<'Entity, ICollection<'Element> (requires 'Entity : null)>

Public Class DbCollectionEntry(Of TEntity, TElement)
Inherits DbMemberEntry(Of TEntity, ICollection(Of TElement))

Type Parameters

TEntity

The type of the entity to which this property belongs.

TElement

The type of the element in the collection of entities.

Inheritance

Object

DbMemberEntry<TEntity,ICollection<TElement>>

DbCollectionEntry<TEntity,TElement>

Properties

CurrentValue	Gets or sets the current value of the navigation property. The current value is the entity that the navigation property references.
EntityEntry	The DbEntityEntry<TEntity> to which this navigation property belongs.
IsLoaded	Gets or sets a value indicating whether all entities of this collection have been loaded from the database.
Name	Gets the property name.

Methods

Equals(Object)	(Inherited from DbMemberEntry<TEntity,TProperty>)
GetHashCode()	(Inherited from DbMemberEntry<TEntity,TProperty>)
GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from DbMemberEntry<TEntity,TProperty>)
GetValidationErrors()	Validates this property. (Inherited from DbMemberEntry<TEntity,TProperty>)
Load()	Loads the collection of entities from the database. Note that entities that already exist in the context are not overwritten with values from the database.
LoadAsync()	Asynchronously loads the collection of entities from the database. Note that entities that already exist in the context are not overwritten with values from the database.
LoadAsync(CancellationToken)	Asynchronously loads the collection of entities from the database. Note that entities that already exist in the context are not overwritten with values from the database.
Query()	Returns the query that would be used to load this collection from the database. The returned query can be modified using LINQ to perform filtering or operations in the database, such as counting the number of entities in the collection in the database without actually loading them.
ToString()	(Inherited from DbMemberEntry<TEntity,TProperty>)

Operators

Implicit(DbCollectionEntry<TEntity,TElement> to DbCollectionEntry)

Returns a new instance of the non-generic DbCollectionEntry class for the navigation property represented by this object.