The class has two purposes: i) Instances of the class are used to identify and pass around Element types ii) The class can be used to get meta data about an attribute. e.g. type, size, Name, pseudo or not, etc Return meta data about an element type, e,g. allowed members, name, Primary or not, etc. The class is valid for system types and UDETS. Object instances are created for all system element types. These instances are in DbElementTypeInstance class All methods that pass an Element Type should pass a DbElemenType object rather than a string that represents the attribute

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

System.Object
   Aveva.Pdms.Database.DbElementType

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.

Requirements

Namespace: Aveva.Pdms.Database

Assembly: Aveva.Pdms.Database (in Aveva.Pdms.Database.dll)

See Also

DbElementType Members | Aveva.Pdms.Database Namespace

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