Recurse through properties of a class
attributes, c#, properties, recursion, reflection
Solution
I would suggest that this is probably not a great use for Attributes, as it muddies up the meta attached to the code. If you want to standardize a way to get at this sort of information regarding bug fixes, I would suggest coming up with an XML Comment Tag, and then turning on XML Comments for your project, and using that instead.
Example Syntax:
/// <summary>This Method Does Something</summary>
/// <BugFix BugId="1234" Programmer="Bob" Date="2/1/2010">Fix Comments</BugFix>
public void MyMethod()
{
// Do Something
}
Problem
Take this sample class as an example: ``` [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All, AllowMultiple=true)] public class BugFixAttribute : System.Attribute { public int BugId { get; private set; } public string Programmer { get; private set; } public DateTime Date { get; private set; } public string Comments { get; set; } public string RefersTo { get; set; } public BugFixAttribute(int bugId = 0, string programmer = "") { this.BugId = bugId; this.Programmer = programmer; Date = DateTime.Now; } } ``` And I want to recuse through the properties to use like: ``` object[] attr = info.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(BugFixAttribute), false); foreach (object attribute in attr) { BugFixAttribute bfa = (BugFixAttribute) attribute; Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("\nBugId: {0}", bfa.BugId)); Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Programmer: {0}", bfa.Programmer)); //... } ``` Because what I need to do is to print these to a file. So how can I recurse through the properties instead of doing the `Debug.WriteLine()` through all of them, is there a way or do I have to write it out.