DictionaryCollection<T> Class

Represents a collection of metadata objects that uses an Dictionary object as the underlying container.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider.DictionaryCollectionBase<T, Dictionary<String, T>>
    Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider.DictionaryCollection<T>
      Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider.BuiltInFunctionCollection
      Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider.DatePartCollection

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class DictionaryCollection(Of T As {Class, IMetadataObject}) _
    Inherits DictionaryCollectionBase(Of T, Dictionary(Of String, T)) _
    Implements IMetadataCollection(Of IMetadataObject), IEnumerable(Of IMetadataObject),  _
    IEnumerable
'Usage
Dim instance As DictionaryCollection(Of T)

public class DictionaryCollection<T> : DictionaryCollectionBase<T, Dictionary<string, T>>, 
    IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>, IEnumerable<IMetadataObject>, IEnumerable 
where T : class, IMetadataObject

generic<typename T>
where T : ref class, IMetadataObject 
public ref class DictionaryCollection : public DictionaryCollectionBase<T, Dictionary<String^, T>^>, 
    IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject^>, IEnumerable<IMetadataObject^>, IEnumerable

type DictionaryCollection<'T when 'T : not struct and IMetadataObject> =  
    class 
        inherit DictionaryCollectionBase<'T, Dictionary<string, 'T>>
        interface IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>
        interface IEnumerable<IMetadataObject>
        interface IEnumerable 
    end

JScript does not support generic types and methods.

Type Parameters

• T
  The type of the elements in the collection, constrained to IMetadataObject.

The DictionaryCollection<T> type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	DictionaryCollection<T>	Initializes a new instance of the DictionaryCollection class that uses the specified capacity and collation information.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	AsMetadataObjectCollection	Gets an IMetadataCollection<T> object that contains this collection. (Overrides DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.AsMetadataObjectCollection.)
	Count	Gets the number of elements in the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	Item	Gets or sets the object in the collection that has the specified name. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Add	Adds an object to the collection using its name as the key. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	AddRange	Adds the elements in the specified collection to this collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	Clear	Removes all elements from the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	Clone()	Creates an IMutableMetadataCollection<T> object that is a copy of this object, except for the elements. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	Clone(Boolean)	Creates an IMutableMetadataCollection<T> object that is a copy of this object and, if specified, also copies the elements. (Overrides DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.Clone(Boolean).)
	Contains(String)	Determines whether the specified element is in the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	FindAll(Predicate<T>)	Finds all elements in the collection that match the conditions defined by the specified predicate. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	FindAll(String)	Finds all elements in the collection that have the specified name. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	GetEnumerator	Returns an enumerator that iterates through the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	Remove(String)	Removes the object with the specified name from the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

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Explicit Interface Implementations

	Name	Description
	IEnumerable<IMetadataObject>.GetEnumerator	Returns an enumerator that iterates through the collection.
	IEnumerable.GetEnumerator	Returns an enumerator that iterates through the collection.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.AsMetadataObjectCollection	Gets an IMetadataCollection<T> object that contains this collection.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.Contains(String)	Determines whether the collection contains the specified element.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.Contains(IMetadataObject)	Determines whether the collection contains the specified object.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.Count	Gets the number of elements in the collection.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.FindAll(String)	Retrieves all elements in the collection that have the specified name.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.FindAll(Predicate<IMetadataObject>)	Retrieves all elements in the collection that match the conditions defined by the specified predicate.
	IMetadataCollection<IMetadataObject>.Item[String]	Gets the specified element from the collection.
	IMetadataCollection<T>.Item[String]	Gets the specified element from the collection. (Inherited from DictionaryCollectionBase<T, U>.)

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser.MetadataProvider Namespace