Chapter 27. Attributes
In This Chapter
Using Attributes
Using Attribute Parameters
Using Attribute Targets
Creating Your Own Attributes
Getting Attributes from a Class
Attributes are program elements that decorate code to provide declarative functionality and metadata for a program. Metadata is the information about a program, its internal elements, and any other aspects of the code that may be interesting to developers. Other languages and systems use Interface Definition Language (IDL), interfaces, type libraries, and basic reflection to obtain metadata on programs.
C# uses reflection, which is a way to discover information about a program at runtime, to obtain metadata, but uses attributes to express additional metadata. Attributes provide a ...
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