Hour 20. Programming with Attributes
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 CIL and can be accessed at runtime.
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