Does GetCustomAttributes() preserve the attribute order in .NET?

Question

The title pretty much says it all. When I\'m doing some reflection through my classes, will the MemberInfo.GetCustomAttributes() method preserve the order of attributes on a

Answer 1

Unfortunately no, you cannot guarantee that the order will be the same as the order in which you specified them.

Edit: a workaround

Disclaimer: I apologize ahead of time if I am misunderstanding your ultimate problem.

It sounds as if you need to be able to pass n number of strings to MenuItemAttribute and have MenuItemAttribute maintain the order of these strings as entered by the developer in the attributes constructor.

Here is a possible solution:

Have MenuItemAttribute use a LinkedList to maintain its state. Then you can iterate the params String[] in your constructor and add them to the LinkedList which would maintain the order.