26.3 Collections Reference

ExtendedProperties

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 PropertyCollection   props   = Constraint.ExtendedProperties; 

Contains a PropertyCollection that can store any amount of miscellaneous information about the Constraint . The information in the ExtendedProperties collection is for use by your code only; it isn't used by the .NET framework.

The ProperyCollection is derived from the Hashtable class. Most disconnected data objects provide an ExtendedProperties collection, including the DataSet , DataColumn , DataTable , and DataRelation classes.

Example

The following code snippet stores the name of a DataRelation object that relates to a ForeignKeyConstraint :

 fkc.ExtendedProperties["RelationName"] = dr.RelationName; 

Note

Items in the PropertyCollection must be strings if you want them to persist when the DataSet is written to XML.