How to reference Assembly attributes

[AlexB]

A windows forms .NET application has various built in
attributes like:

<Assembly: AssemblyTitle(" MyAssembly")>
<Assembly: AssemblyDescrip tion("Blahblah" )>
<Assembly: AssemblyCompany ("XYZ")>

But how can I reference these from within my windows forms
application???

[Tian Min Huang]

RE: How to reference Assembly attributes

Hi,

Thanks for your post.

1. We can call the method GetCustomAttrib utes() under
System.Reflecti on.Assembly to get the custom attributes for the assembly.
System.Reflecti on namespace contains a list of assembly attribute classes
that you are interested say, AssemblyTitleAt tribute,
AssemblyDescrip tionAttribute, AssemblyCompany Attribute, etc. Please refer
to the following MSDN documentation:

Assembly.GetCus tomAttributes

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/

frlrfsystemrefl ectionassemblyc lassgetcustomat tributestopic.a sp?frame=true

System.Reflecti on Namespace

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/

frlrfsystemrefl ection.asp?fram e=true

2. Calling GetCustomAttrib utes(true) will return an object array of all the
attributes. We are able to loop through the array to get each attribute.
The following code snippet call GetCustomAttrib utes(type, true) which
returns AssemblyTitleAt tribute specifically.

//--------------code snippet-------------------
using System.Reflecti on;
...
AssemblyTitleAt tribute assemlyTitle;// = new AssemblyTitleAt tribute("");
object [] objAttributes =
Assembly.GetExe cutingAssembly( ).GetCustomAttr ibutes(typeof(A ssemblyTitleAtt r
ibute),true);
assemlyTitle = (AssemblyTitleA ttribute)objAtt ributes[0];
MessageBox.Show (assemlyTitle.T itle);
//-------------------end of-----------------------

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems or concerns.

Have a nice day!

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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