Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 21. Programming with Attributes

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Understanding attributes

• Using the caller info attributes

• Working with the common attributes

• Using custom attributes

• Accessing attributes at runtime

In Hour 1, “The .NET Framework and C#,” you learned that C# supports component-oriented programming by enabling you to create assemblies that are self-contained, self-documenting, redistributable units of code. Metadata specifies how the types, properties, events, methods, and other code elements relate to one another. Attributes enable you to add additional metadata to an assembly, providing a way of associating declarative information with your code. Attributes are compiled and stored in the resulting common intermediate ...