Tortuga.Anchor Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Collections Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.ComponentModel Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.DataAnnotations Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Dynamic Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Eventing Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Metadata Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Modeling Namespace
Tortuga.Anchor.Modeling.Internals Namespace

MetadataCache..::..GetMetadata<(Of <(<'T>)>)> Method

Gets the metadata for the indicated type.

Namespace:  Tortuga.Anchor.Metadata
Assembly:  Tortuga.Anchor (in Tortuga.Anchor.dll)

Syntax

public static ClassMetadata GetMetadata<T>()

Public Shared Function GetMetadata(Of T) As ClassMetadata

Type Parameters

T
The type of interest

Return Value

A thread-safe copy of the class's metadata

Remarks

Actually fetching the metadata may require taking a lock. Therefore it is advisable to locally cache the metadata as well.

See Also

MetadataCache Class
GetMetadata Overload
Tortuga.Anchor.Metadata Namespace