CustomAttributeExtensions.GetCustomAttributes Method (ParameterInfo, Type, Boolean)

Article
11/23/2015

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Retrieves a collection of custom attributes of a specified type that are applied to a specified parameter, and optionally inspects the ancestors of that parameter.

Namespace: System.Reflection
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function GetCustomAttributes ( _
    element As ParameterInfo, _
    attributeType As Type, _
    inherit As Boolean _
) As IEnumerable(Of Attribute)

public static IEnumerable<Attribute> GetCustomAttributes(
    this ParameterInfo element,
    Type attributeType,
    bool inherit
)

Parameters

element
Type: System.Reflection..::.ParameterInfo
The parameter to inspect.

attributeType
Type: System..::.Type
The type of attribute to search for.

inherit
Type: System..::.Boolean
true to inspect the ancestors of element; otherwise, false.

Return Value

Type: System.Collections.Generic..::.IEnumerable<(Of <(Attribute>)>)
A collection of the custom attributes that are applied to element and that match attributeType, or an empty collection if no such attributes exist.

Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type ParameterInfo. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.

Version Information

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0