VB.Net Web Developer's Guide

58 Chapter 2 • The Microsoft .NET Framework

your code.Attributes can describe the way that data is serialized, describe security

characteristics, or limit JIT compilation for debugging purposes. Perhaps one of

the most versatile of the metadata items, attributes can even add descriptive ele-

ments to your VB code to affect its runtime behavior.A simple attribute may be

used like this:

Public Class <attribute()> ClassName

In this example, the class ClassName is described by the attribute attribute().

This means that when the CLR hits this class, it will alter its behavior according

to what attribute() says.

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