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The C# Programming Language, Third Edition
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The C# Programming Language, Third Edition

by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde
October 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
784 pages
18h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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17. Attributes

Much of the C# language enables the programmer to specify declarative information about the entities defined in the program. For example, the accessibility of a method in a class is specified by decorating it with the method-modifiers public, protected, internal, and private.

C# enables programmers to invent new kinds of declarative information, called attributes. Programmers can then attach attributes to various program entities, and retrieve attribute information in a runtime environment. For instance, a framework might define a HelpAttribute attribute that can be placed on certain program elements (such as classes and methods) to provide a mapping from those program elements to their documentation.

Attributes are defined through ...

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