DataType.UserDefinedType Method (String)

Returns an object that represents the specified type.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function UserDefinedType ( _
    type As String _
) As DataType
'Usage
Dim type As String 
Dim returnValue As DataType 

returnValue = DataType.UserDefinedType(type)

public static DataType UserDefinedType(
    string type
)

public:
static DataType^ UserDefinedType(
    String^ type
)

static member UserDefinedType : 
        type:string -> DataType

public static function UserDefinedType(
    type : String
) : DataType

Parameters

• type
  Type: System.String
  A String value that specifies the type.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.DataType
A DataType object value.

Examples

The following code example shows how to create a user-defined type.

C#

Server srv = new Server("(local)");
Database db = srv.Databases["AdventureWorks2012"];
Schema schema1 = new Schema(db, "ExampleSchema");
schema1.Create();
UserDefinedType udt = new UserDefinedTableType(db, "udt", "ExampleSchema");
udt.Create();
DataType userType = new DataType(SqlDataType.UserDefinedType, "udt");

Powershell

$srv = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("(local)")
$db = $srv.Databases.Item("AdventureWorks2012")
$schema1 = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Schema($db, "ExampleSchema")
$schema1.Create()
$udt = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.UserDefinedType($db, "udt", "ExampleSchema")
$userTable = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.DataType([Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.SqlDataType]::UserDefinedType, "udt")

See Also

Reference

DataType Class

UserDefinedType Overload

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

Working with Data Types