Reflection severely broken for properties

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

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PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes never returns attributes inherited from the base class if the property is an override.

Even worse, if you ask for Attributes.IsDefined with the same values, you will get a true!! :S:S:S... Can't believe a release of .NET comes out without an automated test for those kinds of things...

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7 Comments

Well, given the scope of all the other things, I can believe some little things like this slip through.

Good to catch, but its probably a little on the late side. Perhaps it'll show for an SP1.

Eric Newton - Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:53:00 PM

Fixing this in SP1 would be hard, as there may be software that depend on this bug to work!

Ian Ringrose - Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:11:00 AM

Added the attachment to the bug.

Daniel Cazzulino - Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:12:00 PM

Looks like they've closed it as "By Design". Seems like they've resorted to doing that to all your bugs lately, my friend. :)

Peter Provost - Monday, October 10, 2005 4:00:00 AM

Yup... I wonder how can that behavior been by design. Anyway... surely they have their reasons to resolve them like that: most probably bugs resolved by design don't count against them as real bugs ;). But we know the truth... don't we? :)

Daniel Cazzulino - Monday, October 10, 2005 12:23:00 PM

I really wish that for every bug that was resolved as "by design", that they would explain what design.

AndrewSeven - Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:33:00 PM

Good point... they never do... :(

Daniel Cazzulino - Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:29:00 PM

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