Difference between [RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]

[K Viltersten]

I can't find any good information on the
relation/difference between
[RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
attributes in the code. Please advise.

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

K Viltersten <tm**@viltersten.comwrote:

I can't find any good information on the
relation/difference between
[RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
attributes in the code. Please advise.

Almost no difference at all. From the C# 3.0 spec, section 17.2:

<quote>
By convention, attribute classes are named with a suffix of Attribute.
An attribute-name of the form type-name may either include or omit this
suffix. If an attribute class is found both with and without this
suffix, an ambiguity is present, and a compile-time error results. If
the attribute-name is spelled such that its right-most identifier is a
verbatim identifier (§2.4.2), then only an attribute without a suffix
is matched, thus enabling such an ambiguity to be resolved.
</quote>

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[K Viltersten]

I can't find any good information on the

relation/difference between
[RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
attributes in the code. Please advise.

Almost no difference at all. From the C# 3.0 spec, section 17.2:

<quote>
By convention, attribute classes are named with a suffix of Attribute.
An attribute-name of the form type-name may either include or omit this
suffix. If an attribute class is found both with and without this
suffix, an ambiguity is present, and a compile-time error results. If
the attribute-name is spelled such that its right-most identifier is a
verbatim identifier (§2.4.2), then only an attribute without a suffix
is matched, thus enabling such an ambiguity to be resolved.
</quote>

Great info. Thanks!

For some reason VS2005 will suggest the name
sans the suffix when using autogenerated code.
i almost got punched today for using the
suffix while a colleague insisted on not to.

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have no burial places; their souls be
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

K Viltersten <tm**@viltersten.comwrote:

Great info. Thanks!

For some reason VS2005 will suggest the name
sans the suffix when using autogenerated code.
i almost got punched today for using the
suffix while a colleague insisted on not to.

I think omitting the suffix is idiomatic - I certainly don't include it
myself.

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

K Viltersten wrote:

>I can't find any good information on the
relation/difference between
[RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
attributes in the code. Please advise.

For some reason VS2005 will suggest the name
sans the suffix when using autogenerated code.
i almost got punched today for using the
suffix while a colleague insisted on not to.

VS and your colleague are right. If you write
FoobarAttribute, then you will have all the maintainers
of your code searching for FoobarAttributeAttribute !

Arne

[Pavel Minaev]

"Arne Vajhøj" <ar**@vajhoej.dkwrote in message
news:48***********************@news.sunsite.dk...

>For some reason VS2005 will suggest the name
sans the suffix when using autogenerated code.
i almost got punched today for using the
suffix while a colleague insisted on not to.

VS and your colleague are right. If you write
FoobarAttribute, then you will have all the maintainers
of your code searching for FoobarAttributeAttribute !

Oh yes, XmlAttributeAttribute certainly did teach us that sort of thing,
didn't it... :)

[K Viltersten]

>>I can't find any good information on the

>>relation/difference between
[RunInstaller(true)] and [RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
attributes in the code. Please advise.

>For some reason VS2005 will suggest the name
sans the suffix when using autogenerated code.
i almost got punched today for using the
suffix while a colleague insisted on not to.

VS and your colleague are right. If you write
FoobarAttribute, then you will have all the maintainers
of your code searching for FoobarAttributeAttribute !

How can we explain that the code provided by
MS on in the help uses the suffix, then? Is
it a mistake? A special case? Please advise.

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Konrad Viltersten
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have no burial places; their souls be
chased by demons in Gehenna from one room
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[Pavel Minaev]

"K Viltersten" <tm**@viltersten.comwrote in message
news:6i************@mid.individual.net...

How can we explain that the code provided by
MS on in the help uses the suffix, then? Is
it a mistake? A special case? Please advise.

It is _allowed_ to both provide and omit the suffix, so it's not a mistake.
On the other hand, Microsoft samples in MSDN have never been particularly
good as far as coding style is concerned - they often don't even follow
Microsoft's own style guide. Overall, vast majority of hand-written C# code
I've seen omits the suffix - after all, that was why it is allowed to do so
in the first place.

[K Viltersten]

>How can we explain that the code provided by

>MS on in the help uses the suffix, then? Is
it a mistake? A special case? Please advise.

It is _allowed_ to both provide and omit the suffix, so it's not a
mistake. On the other hand, Microsoft samples in MSDN have never been
particularly good as far as coding style is concerned...

Got it. Thanks!

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Konrad Viltersten
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have no burial places; their souls be
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