Outline OK, I have Google'd this and already expecting a big fat NO!! But I thought I should ask since I know sometimes there can be the odd little gem of knowledge lurking around in peoples heads ^_^ I am working my way through some excercises in a book for study, and this particular exercise is User Controls. I have cobbled together ...
In .NET there are two version numbers available when building a project, File Version and Assembly Version. How are you using these numbers? Keeping them the same? Auto-incrementing one, but manually changing the other? Also what about the AssemblyInformationalVersion attribute? I'd found this support Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) ar...
This is probably best shown with an example. I have an enum with attributes: public enum MyEnum { [CustomInfo("This is a custom attrib")] None = 0, [CustomInfo("This is another attrib")] ValueA, [CustomInfo("This has an extra flag", AllowSomething = true)] ValueB, } I want to get to those attributes from an ...
Following on from my recent question on Large, Complex Objects as a Web Service Result. I have been thinking about how I can ensure all future child classes are serializable to XML. Now, obviously I could implement the IXmlSerializable interface and then chuck a reader/writer to it but I would like to avoid that since it then means I ne...
What are they, what are they good for, and how to I create my own? ...
OK, I know what you're thinking, "why write a method you do not want people to use?" Right? Well, in short, I have a class that needs to be serialized to XML. In order for the XmlSerializer to do its magic, the class must have a default, empty constructor: public class MyClass { public MyClass() { // required for xml serializat...
OK, this kind of follows on from my previous question. What I would really like to do is create some sort of attribute which allows me to decorate a method that will break the build. Much like the Obsolete("reason", true) attribute, but without falsely identifying obsolete code. To clarify: I dont want it to break the build on ANY F6 (...
I imagine everyone has seen code like: public void Server2ClientEnumConvert( ServerEnum server) { switch(server) { case ServerEnum.One: return ClientEnum.ABC //And so on. Instead of this badness we could do somthing like: public enum ServerEnum { [Enum2Enum(ClientEnum.ABC)] One, } Now we c...
I have a flag enum below. [Flags] public enum FlagTest { None = 0x0, Flag1 = 0x1, Flag2 = 0x2, Flag3 = 0x4 } I cannot make the if statement evaluate to true. FlagTest testItem = FlagTest.Flag1 | FlagTest.Flag2; if (testItem == FlagTest.Flag1) { // Do something, // however This is never true. } How can I mak...
Hi, I am not sure whether is it possible to change attribute's parameter during runtime? For example, inside an assembly I have the following class public class UserInfo { [Category("change me!")] public int Age { get; set; } [Category("change me!")] public string Name { get; ...
I am trying to apply styles to HTML tags dynamically by reading in the value of certain HTML attributes and applying a class name based on their values. For instance, if I have: <p height="30"> I want to apply a class="h30" to that paragraph so that I can style it in my style sheet. I can't find any information on getting the value of ...
Do you know if there is a built-in function to build a dictionary from an arbitrary object? I'd like to do something like this: >>> class Foo: ... bar = 'hello' ... baz = 'world' ... >>> f = Foo() >>> props(f) { 'bar' : 'hello', 'baz' : 'world' } NOTE: It should not include methods. Only fields. Thanks ...
I have a solution with multiple project. I am trying to optimize AssemblyInfo.cs files by linking one solution wide assembly info file. What are the best practices for doing this? Which attributes should be in solution wide file and which are project/assembly specific? Edit: If you are interested there is a follow up question What are...
I have a class with a bunch of properties that look like this: public string Name { get { return _name; } set { IsDirty = true; _name = value; } } It would be a lot easier if I could rely on C# 3.0 to generate the backing store for these, but is there any way to factor out the IsDirty=true; so that I can write my properties so...
There are three assembly version attributes. What are differences? Is it ok if I use AssemblyVersion and ignore the rest? MSDN says: AssemblyVersion: Specifies the version of the assembly being attributed. AssemblyFileVersion: Instructs a compiler to use a specific version number for the Win32 file version resource. The Wi...
I have a UserControl in my Asp.net project that has a public property. I do not want this property to show up in the Visual Studio Property Window when a user highlights an instance of the UserControl in the IDE. What attribute (or other method) should I use to prevent it from showing up? class MyControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl { ...
Note: I am using .Net 1.1, although I am not completely against answer that use higher versions. I am displaying some dynamically generated objects in a PropertyGrid. These objects have numeric, text, and enumeration properties. Currently I am having issues setting the default value for the enumerations so that they don't always appear ...
Mapping a collection of enums with NHibernate Specifically, using Attributes for the mappings. Currently I have this working mapping the collection as type Int32 and NH seems to take care of it, but it's not exactly ideal. The error I receive is "Unable to determine type" when trying to map the collection as of the type of the enum I ...
Most mature C++ projects seem to have an own reflection and attribute system, i.e for defining attributes which can be accessed by string and are automatically serializable. At least many C++ projects I participated in seemed to reinvent the wheel. Do you know any good open source libraries for C++ which support reflection and attribute...
I have a VS2008 solution using xml documentation, and we have warnings as errors turned on for release mode (a nice feature IMHO); this results, however, in long lists of 'missing xml comment' errors for such things as every element of a (self describing) enum. Does anyone know of an attribute or similar which switches off the requremen...