Question

I am using PostSharp to add some compile time logic to my attributes – in once case [IndexedCategory ("CatName", CatIndex)]. The trouble comes comes in because IndexedCategory derives from CompoundAspect – which has a reasonable number of named params.

Is there any way which I can prevent these from being accessed / shown by intellisence?

Cheers

Answer 1

I tried a few things… one sure fire way of getting it not to compile would be to re-declare the properties as obsolete or take away the setter – not nice, though.

I tried a few other settings (non-browsable, marked immutable*), but it didn’t help much:

[ImmutableObject(true)] // I'm sure this used to toggle intellisense for attribs
public class FooAttribute : BarAttribute
{
    [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never), Browsable(false)]
    [ReadOnly(true)]
    public new string Name { get { return base.Name; } }
}

Anyway, in the above Name can’t be set for an attribute, even though it can on the base. Hacky and ugly.