AssemblyInfo and user attributes

Question

I would like to add custom attributes to AssemblyInfo, and I created an extension class namedAssemblyMyCustomAttribute

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly)]
public class AssemblyMyCustomAttribute : Attribute
{
    private string myAttribute;

    public AssemblyMyCustomAttribute() : this(string.Empty) { }
    public AssemblyMyCustomAttribute(string txt) { myAttribute = txt; }
}

Then I added a reference to the class in AssemblyInfo.csand added the value

// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("My Project")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("My Project")]
[assembly: AssemblyMyCustomAttribute("testing")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ©  2016")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]

Now I would like to get the value ( "testing") in razor mode

I tried the following without success:

@ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Assembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyMyCustomAttribute), false)[0].ToString();

Not sure if this is the best approach to add custom attributes to mine AssemblyInfo. It seems I can not find the correct method to get the attribute value.

Answer 1

You need to provide a public member that displays what you want to display:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Assembly)]
public class AssemblyMyCustomAttribute : Attribute
{
    public string Value { get; private set; }

    public AssemblyMyCustomAttribute() : this("") { }
    public AssemblyMyCustomAttribute(string value) { Value = value; }
}

Then drop the attribute and access the element:

var attribute = ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Assembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyMyCustomAttribute), false)[0];

@(((AssemblyMyCustomaAttribute)attribute).Value)