Decorating with Metadata

[pdbowling]

Hello everyone.

Does anyone know where I can get a sample of how to Decorate a class with a metadata class? Google turned up a lot of java and ruby references but I didn't see much for C sharp.

MSDN.com listed all of the metadata attributes and methods but I didn't see a good sample.

I'm using Visual Studio 2005.

Thanks all
Patrick

 

[KDavie]

I'm not familar with the terminology you are using (decorate) but I think what you what to look at are attributes... Here is a good intro on MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288059(VS.71).aspx

Kevin Davie
Consultant
Sogeti USA

http://www.us.sogeti.com

 

[chiph]

I've done this, and c# attributes will only take you so far. You'll have no problems specifying datatypes, min/max lengths, etc. But if you want to include any business rules, foreign keys, etc., then you'll run into 'issues' with this approach.

Maybe this is all you need, but if you need full metadata, then you'll probably need to write a set of classes to retrieve/maintain that info.

Chip H.


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