15.10. Reflecting on Attributes Using Early Binding
Remember that attributes are quite useless until another piece of software reflects over its values. Once a given attribute has been discovered, that piece of software can take whatever course of action necessary. Now, like any application, this "other piece of software" could discover the presence of a custom attribute using either early binding or late binding. If you wish to make use of early binding, you'll require the client application to have a compile-time -definition of the attribute in question (VehicleDescriptionAttribute in this case). Given that the AttributedCarLibrary assembly has defined this custom attribute as a public class, early binding is the best option.
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