GetCategory Method (String, CategoryConfiguration)

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11/12/2009

Retrieves a Category object for the specified category and configuration in the current catalog.

Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog
Assembly: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog (in Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function GetCategory ( _
    categoryName As String, _
    config As CategoryConfiguration _
) As Category

'Usage
Dim instance As ProductCatalog
Dim categoryName As String
Dim config As CategoryConfiguration
Dim returnValue As Category

returnValue = instance.GetCategory(categoryName, _
    config)

public Category GetCategory(
    string categoryName,
    CategoryConfiguration config
)

public:
Category^ GetCategory(
    String^ categoryName, 
    CategoryConfiguration^ config
)

public function GetCategory(
    categoryName : String, 
    config : CategoryConfiguration
) : Category

Parameters

categoryName
Type: System..::.String
The name of the category. Should not be nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

config
Type: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog..::.CategoryConfiguration
A CategoryConfiguration object which specifies the portions of the category to retrieve as well as sort options and filtering.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Catalog..::.Category
A Category object that contains information about the category specified by categoryName.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
EntityDoesNotExistException	The categoryName does not exist in the catalog.
NotAuthorizedException	The caller is not authorized to perform this operation.

Remarks

You can use the returned Category object to access and update information about the category. If you make any changes to this object you should call the Save method to save the changes to the catalog system. The categoryName should:

Not be nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or blank.
Not exceed 215 characters.
Exist in the current catalog.

For a virtual catalog you should pass the categoryName in the format categoryName(BaseCatalogName) For example if you include a category "Autobiographies" from a "Books" catalog in a virtual catalog named AllBooks then to get the Category object you should use string categoryName = @"Autobiographies(Books)"; Category category =ProductCatalog.GetCategory(categoryName);

Permissions

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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