Creating Your Own Custom Attributes in C# and Retrieving Their Values

• custom-attributes

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  A demo of how to use custom attributes in C# and .NET Core

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• xUnit

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  xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.

  

  I was trying to think of an example of where C# attributes might be used in every day life and then it dawned on me: unit testing! If you have ever used a unit test framework such as MSTest, NUnit or xUnit, you will have used attributes in C# to define the classes and methods that you would like the test framework to execute. This is just one example of how you can use attributes to assign metadata to elements of your code.

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• NUnit

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  NUnit 3 Framework

  

  I was trying to think of an example of where C# attributes might be used in every day life and then it dawned on me: unit testing! If you have ever used a unit test framework such as MSTest, NUnit or xUnit, you will have used attributes in C# to define the classes and methods that you would like the test framework to execute. This is just one example of how you can use attributes to assign metadata to elements of your code.

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