Merging Multiple Metadata Sources
This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.
The AggregateMetadataSource can be used to merge multiple MetadataContainers and produce a new MetadataContainer that contains the combined metadata. The AggregateMetadataSource class uses a special algorithm internally to resolve references when merging objects. Suppose you have a class A and a class B, which classes you want to merge. Class A has a reference to class C. In this case, when you merge class A and class B, the AggregateMetadataSource class cannot resolve the reference from A to C out of the box. Reference resolution can be controlled by specifying AggregationOptions in the AggregateMetadataSource.
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