Question

I have a property which has an attribute applied to it. How can i access the attribute from inside the property getter or setter?

class Person {

    [ID("A","B")]
    public Address HomeAddress
    {
        get
        {

            // Get values A and B here ?

        }
        set { }
    }
}

Really no idea how to go about this.

Regards

Answer 1

class Person {

    [ID("A","B")]
    public Address HomeAddress
    {
        get
        {
             System.Attribute[] attrs = System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Person);
             // use attrs[0] to get "A";
             // use attrs[1] to get "B";
        }
        set { }
    }
}

Ps.: I’m not using Visual Studio right now, just wrote directly here. Sorry if you find any minor error.

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Give a look at this MSDN article.

System.Attribute[] attrs = System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(Person);  // Reflection. 

// Displaying output. 
foreach (System.Attribute attr in attrs)
{
     System.Console.WriteLine(attr);
}