[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Holds details of individual associations between classes.

For a list of all members of this type, see AssociationMap Members.

System.Object
   AtomsFramework.AssociationMap

Thread Safety

Public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

Remarks

The Association Map class holds the details of the various associations in the O/R mapping. Each AssociationMap object contains information on a single association.

Associations can only be one-to-one or one-to-many. Many-to-many associations must be represented by two one-to-many associations (one for each direction). The thinking is that each association represents a path for navigation between objects and that since you always begin the navigation from a single object the many-to-many association is not really required. It also ensures that the code is somewhat simpler to implement.

Requirements

Namespace: AtomsFramework

Assembly: AtomsFramework (in AtomsFramework.dll)

See Also

AssociationMap Members | AtomsFramework Namespace

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