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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:01:07+00:00

If multiple attributes are applied to a member, e.g. [Foo] [Bar] void Baz() {

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If multiple attributes are applied to a member, e.g.

[Foo]
[Bar]
void Baz() { ... }

Then are any guarantees made by the CLR/.NET specifications as to what order they will be retrieved in when retrieved by reflection (e.g. Attribute.GetCustomAttributes)? The documentation for these methods does not make it explicit, and while it does seem to be the case that they are returned in the order they are applied, I don’t want to rely on undocumented behaviour as that’s just asking for trouble.

As for why this might be important, imagine the attributes are used to indicate that the method should have a series of interceptors, which should run in a specific order.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No from 17.2 Attribute specification it does not seems so.

    The order in which attributes are
    specified in such a list, and the
    order in which sections attached to
    the same program entity are arranged,
    is not significant. For instance, the
    attribute specifications [A][B],
    [B][A], [A, B], and [B, A] are
    equivalent.

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