Inheritance of Custom Attributes on Abstract Properties

Question

I\'ve got a custom attribute that I want to apply to my base abstract class so that I can skip elements that don\'t need to be viewed by the user when displaying the item in

Answer 1

Instead of calling PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes(...), you have to call the static method System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(pi,...), as in:

PropertyInfo info = GetType().GetProperties();

// this gets only the attributes in the derived class and ignores the 'true' parameter
object[] DerivedAttributes = info.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(MyAttribute),true);

// this gets all of the attributes up the heirarchy
object[] InheritedAttributes = System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(info,typeof(MyAttribute),true);