Custom AssemblyInfo Attributes

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To complement my previous post bemoaning the lack of respect for AssemblyInfo, I wanted to illustrate just how easy it is to add a few custom attributes to our AssemblyInfo file:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/custom-assemblyinfo-attributes.html
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Yeah, you could also just strip the “System.Reflection.Assembly” from the beginning and “Attribute” from the end of the assembly type name. This way you wouldn’t need to add a case clause for every new costum attribute you add. It would result in cleaner code, but in a little less efficient method.

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Yay, thanks for that. I wanted to have a ReleaseType Attribute :slight_smile:

If anyone needs that in C#, here you go:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly)]
public class AssemblyReleaseTypeAttribute : System.Attribute
{
private string _strReleaseType;

public AssemblyReleaseTypeAttribute(string ReleaseType)
{
	_strReleaseType = ReleaseType;
}

public virtual string ReleaseType {
	get {
		return _strReleaseType;
	}
}

}

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Thanks. This was just what I was looking for.

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How do you call the GetAssemblyAttribs function? I can’t find a valid value for the parameter.

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System.Reflection.Assembly.GetCallingAssembly
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly

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Great article…

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How can I make the custom attribute appear in the Version tab, when I look at the dll’s properties in Windows Explorer?

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Csabi,

in C# i have created 2 classess and i am able to compile them sucessfully, but the problem is I can not see them in properties tab.

Can anyone help?

TIA