How to access the Description attribute on either a property or a const in C#?

Question

How do you access the Description property on either a const or a property, i.e.,

public static class Group
{

    [Description( \"Specified parent-child rel         


        

Answer 1

You can call MemberInfo.GetCustomAttributes() to get any custom attributes defined on a member of a Type. You can get the MemberInfo for the property by doing something like this:

PropertyInfo prop = typeof(Group).GetProperty("UserExistsInGroup",
    BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static);