New Article: Using Custom Attributes for Validation

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Today my new article on MSDN Belux went online.

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Attributes can be used to decorate language elements with additional information that can be retrieved at run time by using Reflection. You can easily build your own custom attributes to create powerful generic solutions. At first sight they might to seem a little bit useless. But this article shows how they can be used to create a simple extensible framework to provide validation of property values.
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Quoting yourself, how “geek“ is that? :-) Thanks Tom for the layout and publishing.

3 Comments

It's very geeky - just beware of the dangers of recursive self-quotations in a stack-based world ;)

Bernard Vander Beken - Wednesday, October 8, 2003 9:20:00 PM

Yes, I'm aware of that! Many examples of the technique that I showed are available on the net. I just used the validation example to illustrate the use of attributes (which was the goal of this article). So I do not want to pretend I "invented" the technique, I just used it to explain attributes.

Jan Tielens - Thursday, October 9, 2003 5:58:00 PM

Sure I did implement this already, but I didn't write an MSDN article. ;)

Clemens Vasters - Monday, October 13, 2003 11:48:00 AM

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