Instantiate the entity class. Return nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) to indicate that Hibernate should use the default constructor of the class

Namespace: NHibernate
Assembly: NHibernate (in NHibernate.dll) Version: 3.2.0.4000 (3.2.0.4000)

Syntax

C#
Object Instantiate(
	string entityName,
	EntityMode entityMode,
	Object id
)
Visual Basic
Function Instantiate ( _
	entityName As String, _
	entityMode As EntityMode, _
	id As Object _
) As Object
Visual C++
Object^ Instantiate(
	String^ entityName, 
	EntityMode entityMode, 
	Object^ id
)

Parameters

entityName
Type: System..::..String
the name of the entity
entityMode
Type: NHibernate..::..EntityMode
The type of entity instance to be returned.
id
Type: System..::..Object
the identifier of the new instance

Return Value

An instance of the class, or nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) to choose default behaviour

Remarks

The identifier property of the returned instance should be initialized with the given identifier.

See Also