The SearchCount method is useful when needing to know how many total records there are for a search. This is important when paging is performed.
'Create a new Person to save to the database
Dim
currentPerson As New Person()currentPerson.FirstName =
"John"currentPerson.LastName =
"Smith"
'Get the current instance of the helper
Dim
db As IDataHelper = DataHelper.SessionFactory()
'Save it to the database
db.Save(currentPerson)
'Search parameters
Dim
searchParm As New Person()searchParm.FirstName =
"John"
'Search for records based on the passed in search object
Dim
count As Long= _db.SearchCount(searchParm)