COM & .NET Component Services

The Description Attribute

The Description attribute allows you to add text to the description field on the General Properties tab of an application, component, interface, or method. Example 10-2 shows how to apply the Description attribute at the assembly, class, interface, and method levels. After registration, the assembly-level description string becomes the content of the hosting COM+ application’s description field; the class description string becomes the content of the COM+ component description field. The interface and method descriptions are mapped to the corresponding interface and method in the Component Services Explorer.

Example 10-2. Applying the Description attribute at the assembly, class, interface, and method levels

[assembly: Description("My Serviced Components Application")]

[Description("IMyInterface description")]
public interface IMyInterface
{ 
   [Description("MyMethod description")]   
   void MyMethod(  );
}

[Description("My Serviced Component description")]
public class MyComponent :ServicedComponent,IMyInterface
{
   public void MyMethod(  ){}
}