Defining Inheritance
In some situations you create classes that inherit from other classes that are decorated with attributes. Attribute inheritance is not automatic in that you can establish whether your attributes are inheritable. You establish this behavior by setting the Inherited property at AttributeUsage level. By default, if you do not explicitly set Inherited, it is considered as True. The following example shows how you enable attribute inheritance:
'Attribute is also inherited<AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Property, Inherited:=True)>Public Class DocumentPropertiesAttribute
The following snippet shows instead how to make an attribute not inheritable:
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