Field Class

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  TwinCAT.Ads.TypeSystem.Instance
    TwinCAT.Ads.TypeSystem.Field
      TwinCAT.Ads.TypeSystem.Member
Namespace: TwinCAT.Ads.TypeSystem
Assembly: TwinCAT.Ads (in TwinCAT.Ads.dll) Version: 6.0.328+39e3229

C#

public class Field : Instance, IField, 
    IAttributedInstance, IInstance, IBitSize

The Field type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Attributes	Gets the Type Attributes. (Inherited from Instance.)
	BitSize	Gets the size of this Instance in bits. (Inherited from Instance.)
	ByteSize	Gets the (aligned) size of of the Type/Instance in Bytes (Inherited from Instance.)
	Category	Gets the the DataTypeCategory of the Instance. (Inherited from Instance.)
	Comment	Gets the comment. (Inherited from Instance.)
	ContextMask	Gets the context mask of this instance. (Inherited from Instance.)
	DataType	Gets the IDataType of the IInstance. (Inherited from Instance.)
	HasValue	Gets a value indicating whether this instance has a value. (Inherited from Instance.)
	InstanceName	Gets the name of the instance (without periods (.) (Inherited from Instance.)
	InstancePath	Gets the relative / absolute access path to the instance (with periods (.)) (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsBitType	Gets a value indicating whether this instance is not basing on a full DataType but instead of some sort of bit mapping (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsByteAligned	Indicates that the Size of the Object is Byte aligned (BitSize % 8 == 0) (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsPersistent	Indicates that this instance is persistent. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsPointer	Gets a value indicating whether this instance is reference. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsReadOnly	Indicates that this instance is read only. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsReference	Gets a value indicating whether this instance is reference. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsStatic	Gets a value indicating whether this IInstance is static. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsTcComInterfacePointer	Indicates that this instance is a TcComInterfacePointer. (Inherited from Instance.)
	IsTypeGuid	Indicates that this instance has set TypeGuid flag. (Inherited from Instance.)
	Namespace	Gets the namespace name. (Inherited from Instance.)
	ParentType	Gets the Parent of this IField.
	Size	Gets the size of the IDataType in bytes or Bits dependant on IsBitType (Inherited from Instance.)
	TypeName	Gets the name of the DataType that is used for this IInstance. (Inherited from Instance.)
	ValueEncoding	Gets the value encoding of this Field

Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	OnGetSize	Handler function getting the size of the Instance (Inherited from Instance.)
	OnSetInstanceName	Sets a new InstanceName InstancePath (Inherited from Instance.)
	SetAttributes	Sets the type attributes (Inherited from Instance.)
	SetContextMask	Sets the context mask. (Inherited from Instance.)
	ToString	Returns a String that represents this instance. (Inherited from Instance.)

Extension Methods

	Name	Description
	ReferencesExternalData	Indicates, that the Instance value includes process memory data, that cannot be read in one memory block. (Defined by DataTypeExtension.)

Reference

TwinCAT.Ads.TypeSystem Namespace