The AbstractType type exposes the following members.

Methods

  NameDescription
Assemble
Reconstructs the object from its cached "disassembled" state.
DeepCopy
When implemented by a class, returns a deep copy of the persistent state, stopping at entities and at collections.
Disassemble
Disassembles the object into a cacheable representation.
EqualsOverloaded.
Finalize
Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.)
FromString
Parse the XML representation of an instance
GetColumnSpan
When implemented by a class, returns how many columns are used to persist this type.
GetHashCodeOverloaded.
GetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Hydrate
Retrives an instance of the mapped class, or the identifier of an entity or collection from a IDataReader.
IsDatabaseNull
Determines whether the specified value is represented as nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) in the database.
IsDirtyOverloaded.
IsModified
Says whether the value has been modified
MemberwiseClone
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
NullSafeGetOverloaded.
NullSafeSetOverloaded.
Replace
ResolveIdentifier
Maps identifiers to Entities or Collections.
SemiResolve
SqlTypes
When implemented by a class, returns the SqlTypes for the columns mapped by this IType.
ToLoggableString
When implemented by a class, a representation of the value to be embedded in an XML element
ToString
Returns a String that represents the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)

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