'Declaration
 
Public Operator <( _
   ByVal value1 As UAQualifiedName, _
   ByVal value2 As UAQualifiedName _
) As Boolean

'Usage
 

public bool operator <( 
   UAQualifiedName value1,
   UAQualifiedName value2
)

public:
bool operator <( 
   UAQualifiedName^ value1,
   UAQualifiedName^ value2
)

Parameters

value1

First object to be compared.

Because the UAQualifiedName has an implicit conversion from System.String, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a string (representing the expanded text of the qualified name) in place of this parameter, and the corresponding OPC UA qualified name will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can use the UAQualifiedName Constructor(String) constructor instead.

The value of this parameter can be null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

value2

Second object to be compared.

Because the UAQualifiedName has an implicit conversion from System.String, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a string (representing the expanded text of the qualified name) in place of this parameter, and the corresponding OPC UA qualified name will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can use the UAQualifiedName Constructor(String) constructor instead.

The value of this parameter can be null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Return Value

This method or property does not throw any exceptions, aside from execution exceptions such as System.Threading.ThreadAbortException or System.OutOfMemoryException.

Target Platforms: .NET Framework: Windows 10 (selected versions), Windows 11 (selected versions), Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2022; .NET: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows