October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
31h 19m
English
Attributes are a means of inserting additional metadata into an assembly and associating the metadata with a programming construct such as a class, method, or property. This chapter investigates the details surrounding attributes that are built into the framework and describes how to define custom attributes. To take advantage of custom attributes, it is necessary to identify them. This is handled through reflection. This chapter begins with a look at reflection, including how you can use it to dynamically bind at execution time based on member invocation by name (or metadata) at compile time. Reflection is frequently leveraged within tools such as a code generator. In addition, reflection ...
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