what are attributes in .NET ?

Santosh Kumar Kotnala

13y

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An attribute is a declarative tag that is used to convey information to runtime about the behaviour of programmatic elements such as classes,enumerators and assemblies.

A declarative tag is represented by square brackets [] above the definition of the elements that is it can be above the class or it can be above the method .

For example:

[attribute(positional parameters,named parameters)]

Here, in the above example positional parameters are essential information of an attribute whereas name parameters are the optional information of an attribute.

sarika jain

13y

Attributes provide a powerful method of associating metadata, or declarative information, with code (assemblies, types, methods, properties, and so forth). After an attribute is associated with a program entity, the attribute can be queried at run time by using a technique called reflection.

Manish Dwivedi

13y