Custom Attributes
Chapter 6 introduced the concept of attributes, which have already appeared in several examples. In this chapter we used the Serializable and Synchronization attributes, which are provided by .NET Framework classes. The .NET Framework makes the attribute mechanism entirely extensible, allowing you to define custom attributes, which can be added to a class's metadata. This custom metadata is available through reflection and can be used at runtime. To simplify the use of custom attributes, you may declare a base class to do the work of invoking the reflection API to obtain the metadata information.
The example CustomAttribute illustrates the custom attribute InitialDirectory. InitialDirectory controls the initial current directory ...
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