Official Name of extended property attributes?

[Raterus]

Hi,

This is easy, I'm using some "extended attributes" to my classes/properties more and more these days, you know, when you have type that stuff before the definition of your class.

<XmlRoot(ElementName:="something")> _
Public Class MyClass

End Class

or sometimes I've had to do this...
<Serializable()> _
Public Class AnotherClass

End Class

My question is, what is the official term for these attributes( everything between < and >), I'd like to do more research on these as I've never found a good explanation how to use them. Just stumbled across them and know they work...

Thanks,
--Michael

[Chris Dunaway]

They're called simply "Attributes". In fact, using the example you
gave, the XmlRoot attribute is actually a class called
XmlRootAttribute.

If you look up attributes, you should find the info you need.

Chris

[Raterus]

Thanks, that's sure easy enough! I was able to find some info on them now.

"Chris Dunaway" <du******@gmail.com> wrote in message news:11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...

They're called simply "Attributes". In fact, using the example you
gave, the XmlRoot attribute is actually a class called
XmlRootAttribute.

If you look up attributes, you should find the info you need.

Chris