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Take a look advantages and disadvantages of <span class="PrimaryUUID">Guid</span>s: <a href="comparison_of_ids.htm" target="" title="" alt="" class="MCXref" xrefformat="See "{paratext}"">See "Comparison Of Different IDs"</a></p> <p>This example assumes that all object have a common super-class, IDHolder, which holds the <span class="PrimaryUUID">Guid</span> in a field. </p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">private readonly Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid(); public Guid ObjectId { get { return guid; } } </pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">IDHolder.cs: generate the 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">Private ReadOnly guid As Guid = Guid.NewGuid() Public ReadOnly Property ObjectId() As Guid Get Return guid End Get End Property </pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">IDHolder.vb: generate the 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> <p>It's important to index the id-field, otherwise looking up for object by id will be slow.</p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">configuration.Common.ObjectClass(typeof (IDHolder)).ObjectField("guid").Indexed(true);</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.cs: index the uuid-field <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">configuration.Common.ObjectClass(GetType(IDHolder)).ObjectField("guid").Indexed(True)</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.vb: index the uuid-field <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>The id is hold by the object itself, so you can get it directly.</p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">IDHolder uuidHolder = (IDHolder) obj; Guid uuid = uuidHolder.ObjectId;</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.cs: get the uuid <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 uuidHolder As IDHolder = DirectCast(obj, IDHolder) Dim uuid As Guid = uuidHolder.ObjectId</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.vb: get the uuid <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>You can get the object you can by a regular query. </p> <div class="codesnippet" MadCap:conditions="Primary.c#"> <pre class="prettyprint" xml:space="preserve">IDHolder instance = container.Query(delegate(IDHolder o) { return o.ObjectId.Equals(idForObject); })[0];</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.cs: get an object its UUID <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 instance As IDHolder = container.Query(Function(o As IDHolder) o.ObjectId.Equals(idForObject))(0)</pre> <div class="codesnippet-meta">UuidOnObject.vb: get an object its UUID <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> </p> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../SkinSupport/MadCapBodyEnd.js"> </script> </body> </html>