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TypeDescriptor.CreateAssociation(Object, Object) Method

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Definition

Namespace:
System.ComponentModel
Assembly:
System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.dll
Assembly:
System.dll
Assembly:
netstandard.dll
Source:
TypeDescriptor.cs
Source:
TypeDescriptor.cs
Source:
TypeDescriptor.cs

Creates a primary-secondary association between two objects.

public:
 static void CreateAssociation(System::Object ^ primary, System::Object ^ secondary);
public static void CreateAssociation (object primary, object secondary);
static member CreateAssociation : obj * obj -> unit
Public Shared Sub CreateAssociation (primary As Object, secondary As Object)

Parameters

primary
Object

The primary Object.

secondary
Object

The secondary Object.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

One or both of the parameters are null.

ArgumentException

primary is equal to secondary.

Remarks

The CreateAssociation method creates an association between a primary and a secondary object. Once an association is created, a designer or other filtering mechanism can add properties that route to either object into the primary object's property set. When a property invocation is made against the primary object, the GetAssociation method will be called to resolve the actual object instance that is related to its type parameter.

A WeakReference is used to maintain the association between the primary and secondary object; therefore, this method does not prevent either object from being finalized and reclaimed by garbage collection.

Applies to

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