/// <summary>
/// Attempts to get the primitive store type for the given type name. This method takes the target .NET Framework
/// into account and only returns primitive types that are supported by the Framework that is being targeted.
/// If a type is recognized but excluded because it is not supported by the target Framework then the excludedForTarget
/// flag is set to true.
/// </summary>
internal bool TryGetStorePrimitiveType(string typeName, out PrimitiveType primitiveType, out bool excludedForTarget)
{
excludedForTarget = false;
var success = ItemCollection.TryGetItem <PrimitiveType>(StoreNamespace + "." + typeName, false, out primitiveType);
// If targetting 4.0 using 4.5 then we need to ignore geometry and geography types just like we would have done when
// generating with 4.0. We can only get the base spatial types since we won't reverse engineer to derived spatial
// types. We don't need to do anything for enums because we will never reverse engineer to an enum.
if (success &&
_targetEntityFrameworkVersion.CompareTo(EntityFrameworkVersions.Version3) < 0 &&
(primitiveType.PrimitiveTypeKind == PrimitiveTypeKind.Geography || primitiveType.PrimitiveTypeKind == PrimitiveTypeKind.Geometry))
{
excludedForTarget = true;
primitiveType = null;
return(false);
}
return(success);
}