Attributes in C#

Pete OHanlon

If only somebody would invent a mechanism to find information on this cluttered mess we call the internet. By golly, they'd make a fortune. I take it you're hoping that we have stumbled across some nugget of information that provides the answer. By randomly typing words into the browser address bar, I managed to find this page[^] in seconds. I must be some form of savant.

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Keith Barrow

Now that's sarcasm.

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Wayne Gaylard

Certainly no idiot, that's for sure:thumbsup:

...and I have extensive experience writing computer code, including OIC, BTW, BRB, IMHO, LMAO, ROFL, TTYL.....

Pete OHanlon

I've tried to be nice for a long time, but the level of dross we're trawling through is getting to me. I guess I'm back to my old ways.

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Keith Barrow

I know exactly what you mean, I've even been giving it a bit of a break recently. The quality of the questions has been low recently, and some claque-y voting for articles etc. The CP has been consistently been the best .net forum for the 10ish years I've been developing, but I'm not confident that will continue to be the case in the next few years unless things improve substantially & soon.

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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I don't understand the word "sarcasm". Is there some place I can go to learn more?

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

Keith Barrow

This Internet thing: it showed me a whole new world that I never knew. [^] by Matt B. 31st of March, 2006

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Pete OHanlon

Mark Nischalke wrote:

I don't understand the word "sarcasm". Is there some place I can go to learn more?

JSOP's house?

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I'm sure I could get several different calibre of answers there.

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

ambarishtv

Attribute Developers can add metadata to their code through attributes. There are two types of attributes, custom and pseudo custom attributes, and to the developer these have the same syntax. Attributes in code are messages to the compiler to generate metadata. In CIL, metadata such as inheritance modifiers, scope modifiers, and almost anything that isn't either opcodes or streams, are also referred to as attributes. A custom attribute is a regular class that inherits from the Attribute class. Custom attributes are used by the .NET Framework extensively. Windows Communication Framework uses attributes to define service contracts, ASP.NET uses these to expose methods as web services, LINQ to SQL uses them to define the mapping of classes to the underlying relational schema, Visual Studio uses them to group together properties of an object, the class developer indicates the category for the object's class by applying the [Category] custom attribute. Custom attributes are interpreted by application code and not the CLR.When the compiler sees a custom attribute it will generate custom metadata that is not recognised by the CLR. The developer has to provide code to read the metadata and act on it. :thumbsup:

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