Accessing .NETInput node properties at run time

The .NET framework provides a class in the namespace System.Collections.Generic named Dictionary<TKey, TValue>, which represents a collection of keys and their associated values. When you write code for a .NETInput node, the templates that are provided in Microsoft Visual Studio helps you initialize a new instance of the EventInputConnector or the PollingInputConnector class. The template code includes the definition of the subclass for the EventInputConnector or PollingInputConnector class, which contains a properties parameter, which is of the data type Dictionary<string,string>. This parameter carries user-defined properties for the node, and any flow-level user-defined properties.

The individual property names are case-sensitive. For example, you can define a flow-level user-defined property named property1, which would be independent of a .NETInput node User Defined Property named Property1. If you specify a flow-level user-defined property and a .NETInput node user-defined property with the same name and case, then the value of the .NETInput node property takes precedence.

The following code snippet demonstrates a simple example:

public PollingInputConnector(NBConnectorFactory connectorFactory, string name, Dictionary<string, string> properties) : base(connectorFactory, name, properties)
{
// Check the Dictionary of user defined properties defined on the node.
// If there is a property named queueName then take its value for use later:
if (properties.ContainsKey("queueName"))      
{
queueName = properties["queueName"];
}
}