The article critiques the design and implementation of custom attributes in .NET, particularly focusing on their problematic storage mechanism in .NET binaries. The author, who maintains a PE parsing library, shares their frustrations with how custom attributes are handled at the binary level, calling it one of Microsoft's poorest design choices in .NET.
Background
Custom attributes in .NET are metadata annotations that can be applied to various code elements to provide additional information or behavior. They are widely used in .NET development for tasks like marking code as obsolete, configuring serialization, and enabling dependency injection.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- May 31, 2026 at 02:15 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10