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Represents an entity such as Customer or Product, in a line-of-business (LOB) application.

The Entity type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	EstimatedInstanceCount	Gets the estimated number of entity instances of this entity.
	Id	Gets the unique ID of each metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	IsCached	Determines whether the metadata object is cached or not. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Name	Gets the name of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	ApplySystemLevelFilters	(Inherited from DataClass.)
	CheckAccess	Gets the rights the current user has on one or more entity instances.
	ContainsDefaultAction	Determines whether the entity contains a default action.
	ContainsLocalizedDisplayName	Determines whether the metadata object contains a localized display name. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	Equals	(Inherited from Object.)
	Execute(MethodInstance, LobSystemInstance)	Executes a method instance on the business application. (Inherited from DataClass.)
	Execute(MethodInstance, LobSystemInstance, [])	Executes a MethodInstance on the business application. (Overrides DataClass.Execute(MethodInstance, LobSystemInstance, []).)
	ExtractTargetAndTouchOuterStreams	Infrastructure.
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	FindAssociated(EntityInstanceCollection, LobSystemInstance)	Gets the entity instances associated with a given entity instance collection.
	FindAssociated(EntityInstanceCollection, Association, LobSystemInstance)	Gets the entity instances associated with a given entity instance collection.
	FindAssociated(EntityInstanceCollection, FilterCollection, LobSystemInstance)	Gets filtered entity instances associated with a given entity instance collection.
	FindAssociated(EntityInstanceCollection, Association, FilterCollection, LobSystemInstance)	Gets the entity instances associated with a given entity instance collection.
	FindFiltered	Gets a filtered set of entity instances from the business application.
	FindSpecific(Object, LobSystemInstance)	Gets a single entity instance given its ID.
	FindSpecific([], LobSystemInstance)	Gets a single entity instance given its ID.
	GetAccessCheckerMethodInstance	Gets the AccessChecker MethodInstance for this entity.
	GetActions	Gets the actions that the entity contains.
	GetAssociationView	Gets the view of the specified association. It represents the fields that would be present in the entity instances returned if the association was executed.
	GetById	Gets an entity given its ID.
	GetDefaultAction	Gets the default action associated with the entity.
	GetDefaultDisplayName	Gets the default display name of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	GetDestinationAssociations	Gets the associations where this entity is the destination in the relationship.
	GetFinderFilters	Gets a collection of Finder filters defined for the entity.
	GetFinderMethodInstance	Gets the method instance that defines the Finder method.
	GetFinderView	Gets the view of the finder method. It represents the fields that would be present in the entity instances returned if the Finder was executed.
	GetHashCode	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetIdentifierCount	Gets the count of identifiers defined for the entity.
	GetIdentifiers	Gets the identifiers defined for the entity.
	GetLobSystem	Gets the LobSystem object this DataClass object (entity) belongs to. (Inherited from DataClass.)
	GetLocalizedDisplayName	Gets the localized display name of the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	GetMethodInstances	Gets the method instances available for this DataClass object (entity). (Inherited from DataClass.)
	GetMethods	Gets the methods available for this DataClass object (entity). (Inherited from DataClass.)
	GetProperties	Gets the properties associated with the metadata object. (Inherited from MetadataObject.)
	GetSourceAssociations	Gets the associations where this entity is the source entity in the relationship.
	GetSpecificFinderMethodInstance	Gets the SpecificFinder method instance for this entity.
	GetSpecificFinderView	Gets the view of the SpecificFinder method. It represents the fields that would be present in the entity instances returned if the SpecificFinder was executed.
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetViewAccessorMethodInstances	Gets all method instances that are of MethodInstance type ViewAccessor for this entity.
	GetViewDefinition	Gets the list of fields in a given view of an entity.
	HasAccessChecker	Returns a true or false depending on whether this entity has an AccessChecker MethodInstance defined for it.
	HasFinder	Indicates whether the entity has a Finder method defined.
	HasSpecificFinder	Indicates whether the entity has a SpecificFinder method defined.
	Initialize	Initializes an Entity object.
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)
	WrapAsEntities	Infrastructure.
	WrapAsForeignKeyAssociation	Infrastructure.

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Fields

	Name	Description
	AuditSuppressPropertyName
	CanonicalNamePropertyName
	DefaultActionPropertyName	Name of the Action to be used as the hyperlink in business data search results, business data columns, and elsewhere.
	DisplaySearchResultRightsMaskPropertyName	Represents the rights mask that is used to convert a rights vector into a Yes or a No value.

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See Also

Reference

Entity Class

Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.MetadataModel Namespace