Attributes

Attributes describe a type, method or property in a way that can be programmatically queried using Reflection. Common uses for Attributes include:

• Specify which security privaledges a class requires
• Specify security priviledges to refuse to reduce security risk
• Declaring capabilities, such as supporting serialization
• Describe the assembly by providing a title, description and copyright notice

Attributes all derieve from the System.Attribute class and are specified in C# using [] notation.