1. Introduction
2. Intrinsic and Custom Attributes
3. Attribute Targets and Specifications
4. Implementing a Custom Attribute
5. Implementing a Custom Attribute contd
6. Under the hood

Comments

1. soruabhm
   03 May 2004 at 03:26

   Hi
   Good article.I have a qus here. I have used a ot of attributes and have tried writing mine as well. Now the basic qus of when to write one of our own is still a little difficult for me. I understand simple using [SERIALIZABLE] makes life easier, but to really appreciate this perhaps I would want to understand whats the tought way of doing the same.
   Could anybody explain with an example how attribute is giving ab advantage.
   

   
   Thanks
   sourabh

2. zaka48
   06 Mar 2004 at 17:38
   how can I Add a reference to assembly System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll ???
   
3. thanh nguyen
   10 Jan 2003 at 05:52
   This is a very good article.  
   
   The example shown used public modifier for the class attributes, is there any way to get it to work with private/protected attributes?  I tried the example code using private and was unable to get it to work.
4. Gopi Darisipudi
   06 Jan 2003 at 15:36

   I have absolutely no knowledge of C# and attributes, but I could understand the article very easily.  Good Write-up!

5. ghanshyam
   12 Nov 2002 at 17:52
   Well the attributed programming started from MIDL/COM programming and .NET also supports this concept widely.
   The advantages provided with attributed programming is amazing and simultaneously it has a drawback.
   The growth of attributes in each model like MIDL,MTS/COM+ and .NET is quite alarming.It increases the learning curve for a developer to use that Runtime.
   And it seems whatever the runtime Environment is not able to do is kept as attributes and Developer has to provide it.
   
   For example
   void  GetData(CMyObject  obj1,CMyObject  &obj2);
   
   In the above method all C++ compiler recognizes that obj1 is passed by value and obj2 is passed by reference.If the Runtime environment can have the equivalent inteligence then no requirement of marking [SERIALIAZABLE] attribute to the class if we want to pass the object by value.
   And what ever feature is not provided by any of the existing Object Oriented Language can be used as attributes.
   
   Ghanshyam.
6. Ravi Shankar
   31 Oct 2002 at 07:28

   The article is nice

7. Developer Fusion Bot
   01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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