Interfaces

A UserType that may be dereferenced in a query. This interface allows a custom type to define "properties". These need not necessarily correspond to physical .NET style properties. A ICompositeUserType may be used in almost every way that a component may be used. It may even contain many-to-one associations. Implementors must be immutable and must declare a public default constructor. Unlike UserType, cacheability does not depend upon serializability. Instead, Assemble() and Disassemble() provide conversion to/from a cacheable representation.

A custom type that may function as an identifier or discriminator type, or may be marshalled to and from an XML document.

Marker interface for user types which want to perform custom logging of their corresponding values

Support for parameterizable types. A UserType or CustomUserType may be made parameterizable by implementing this interface. Parameters for a type may be set by using a nested type element for the property element

The interface to be implemented by user-defined types.

A user type that may be used for a version property.