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UIHintAttribute Class

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Designates the control and values to use to display the associated entity member.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Attribute
    System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.UIHintAttribute

Namespace:  System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
Assembly:  System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations (in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Property Or AttributeTargets.Field, AllowMultiple := True)> _
Public Class UIHintAttribute _
    Inherits Attribute
[AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Property|AttributeTargets.Field, AllowMultiple = true)]
public class UIHintAttribute : Attribute

The UIHintAttribute type exposes the following members.

Constructors

  Name Description
Public method UIHintAttribute(String) Initializes a new instance of the UIHintAttribute class with the specified name of the control to use to display the member.
Public method UIHintAttribute(String, String) Initializes a new instance of the UIHintAttribute class with the specified name of the control to use to display the member and the presentation layer for the control.
Public method UIHintAttribute(String, String, array<Object[]) Initializes a new instance of the UIHintAttribute class with the specified name of the control to use to display the member, the presentation layer for the control, and the parameters to use when creating an instance of the control.

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Properties

  Name Description
Public property ControlParameters Gets a collection of values to use as parameters when creating an instance of the presentation control.
Public property PresentationLayer Gets the name of the presentation layer that supports the control type in the UIHint property.
Public property UIHint Gets the name of the control to use to display the associated member.

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method Equals Returns a value that indicates whether this instance has the same value as the specified object. (Overrides Attribute.Equals(Object).)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Returns a hash code for this instance. (Overrides Attribute.GetHashCode().)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Match When overridden in a derived class, returns a value that indicates whether this instance equals a specified object. (Inherited from Attribute.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

You use the UIHintAttribute attribute to specify a customized class to use for rendering data for an entity property. You provide the name of the class in the attribute constructor.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

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.