Among the most confusing and misunderstood elements of the .NET framework are the purpose and uses of attributes. Read this article to see why attributes are a good thing. Since attributes are new to ...

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Eric Vogel covers some of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 5.1. In this first of a two-part series, he takes a good, long look at some new attribute routing options. ASP.NET MVC 5.1 includes updates to ...

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Attributes are a powerful feature in the C# programming language that can add metadata information to your assemblies. An attribute is actually an object that is associated with any of these elements: ...

One of the many benefits that object-oriented programming gives you is the ability to protect an object's private members by encapsulating them inside public properties. However, it isn't enough to ...