XPTypeInfo.GetAttributeInfo(Type) Method

Returns the attribute of the specified type.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpo.Metadata

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpo.v19.2.dll

Declaration

C#

public Attribute GetAttributeInfo(
    Type attributeType
)

VB.NET

Public Function GetAttributeInfo(
    attributeType As Type
) As Attribute

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
attributeType	Type	A Type descendant which represents the type of the attribute to retrieve.

Returns

Type	Description
Attribute	A Attribute descendant of the specified type. null (Nothing in Visual Basic) if an attribute of the specified type isn’t found. In this case the RequiredAttributeMissingException is thrown.

Remarks

Use the XPTypeInfo.HasAttribute method to determine whether the XPTypeInfo.Attributes collection contains an attribute of the specified type.

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C#

XPO_how-to-dynamically-create-a-read-only-calculated-persistent-alias-property-e3473/CS/ConsoleApplication17/XPAliasedMemberInfo.cs#L27

}
PersistentAliasAttribute persistentAliasAttribute = (PersistentAliasAttribute)this.GetAttributeInfo(typeof(PersistentAliasAttribute));
return new ExpressionEvaluator(Owner.GetEvaluatorContextDescriptor(), CriteriaOperator.Parse(persistentAliasAttribute.AliasExpression, new object[0]),

VB.NET

XPO_how-to-dynamically-create-a-read-only-calculated-persistent-alias-property-e3473/VB/ConsoleApplication17/XPAliasedMemberInfo.vb#L46

End If
Dim persistentAliasAttribute As PersistentAliasAttribute = CType(Me.GetAttributeInfo(GetType(PersistentAliasAttribute)), PersistentAliasAttribute)
Return (New ExpressionEvaluator(Owner.GetEvaluatorContextDescriptor(), CriteriaOperator.Parse(persistentAliasAttribute.AliasExpression, New Object(){}), caseSensitive, Owner.Dictionary.CustomFunctionOperators)).Evaluate(theObject)