MetadataSection.Metadata Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.ServiceModel.Description

Assembly:

System.ServiceModel.dll

Gets or sets the contained metadata object.

public:
 property System::Object ^ Metadata { System::Object ^ get(); void set(System::Object ^ value); };

public object Metadata { get; set; }

member this.Metadata : obj with get, set

Public Property Metadata As Object

Property Value

Object

The metadata contents for this MetadataSection.

Remarks

Use the Metadata property to access or modify the metadata content contained in the MetadataSection. The metadata object can be MetadataReference or a MetadataLocation as a reference to the metadata content. When a MetadataSection is deserialized, the type of the metadata object is determined from the XML content. The following table describes the possible return values.

Type of XML metadata	Returned type
WSDL document	System.Web.Services.Description.ServiceDescription
XML Schema	System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema
Metadata reference	System.ServiceModel.Description.MetadataReference
Metadata location	System.ServiceModel.Description.MetadataLocation
Policy, and all other XML content	System.Xml.XmlElement