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Take a look advantages and disadvantages of internal ids: <a href="comparison_of_ids.htm" target="" title="" alt="" class="MCXref" xrefformat="See "{paratext}"">See "Comparison Of Different IDs"</a></p> <p>For using the internal ids no additional configuration is required. You can get this id for any object. </p> <p>You can get the internal id from the extended object container.</p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">long interalId = container.Ext().GetID(obj);</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">Db4oInternalIdExample.cs: get the db4o internal ids <div class="codedownload"><a href="../../CodeExamples/disconnectedobj/idexamples/Example-disconnectedobj-idexamples-csharp.zip" class="codedownload" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online">Download Code</a></div><div class="codedownload copylink-marker" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online"><a href="#copy">Copy Code</a></div></div> </div> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.VB.NET"> <pre class="prettyprint lang-vb" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online" xml:space="preserve">Dim interalId As Long = container.Ext().GetID(obj)</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">Db4oInternalIdExample.vb: get the db4o internal ids <div class="codedownload"><a href="../../CodeExamples/disconnectedobj/idexamples/Example-disconnectedobj-idexamples-vb.zip" class="codedownload" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online">Download Code</a></div><div class="codedownload copylink-marker" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online"><a href="#copy">Copy Code</a></div></div> </div> <p>Getting a object by its id is also easy. First you get the object from the container. Unlike queries this won't return a <a href="../../basics/activation.htm">activated</a> object. So you have to do it explicitly.</p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">long internalId = idForObject; object objectForID = container.Ext().GetByID(internalId); // getting by id doesn't activate the object // so you need to do it manually container.Ext().Activate(objectForID);</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">Db4oInternalIdExample.cs: get an object by db4o internal id <div class="codedownload"><a href="../../CodeExamples/disconnectedobj/idexamples/Example-disconnectedobj-idexamples-csharp.zip" class="codedownload" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online">Download Code</a></div><div class="codedownload copylink-marker" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online"><a href="#copy">Copy Code</a></div></div> </div> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.VB.NET"> <pre class="prettyprint lang-vb" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online" xml:space="preserve">Dim internalId As Long = idForObject Dim objForID As Object = container.Ext().GetByID(internalId) ' getting by id doesn't activate the object ' so you need to do it manually container.Ext().Activate(objForID)</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">Db4oInternalIdExample.vb: get an object by db4o internal id <div class="codedownload"><a href="../../CodeExamples/disconnectedobj/idexamples/Example-disconnectedobj-idexamples-vb.zip" class="codedownload" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online">Download Code</a></div><div class="codedownload copylink-marker" MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online"><a href="#copy">Copy Code</a></div></div> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../SkinSupport/MadCapBodyEnd.js"> </script> </body> </html>