ProtectedAttribute Class

Custom attribute that, when applied to a target declaration, causes PostSharp to emit a warning if the declaration is being referenced from classes that are not derived from the target class. This constraint is similar to the C# keyword protected and should be used only when the target declaration must be made public or internal for non-architectural reasons.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Attribute
    PostSharp.Extensibility.MulticastAttribute
      PostSharp.Constraints.Constraint
        PostSharp.Constraints.ReferentialConstraint
          PostSharp.Constraints.ProtectedAttribute

Namespace: PostSharp.Constraints
Assembly: PostSharp (in PostSharp.dll) Version: 6.4.11.0 (6.4.11.0)

Syntax

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public sealed class ProtectedAttribute : ReferentialConstraint

The ProtectedAttribute type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	ProtectedAttribute	Initializes a new ProtectedAttribute.

Properties

	Name	Description
	AttributeExclude	If true, indicates that this attribute removes all other instances of the same attribute type from the set of elements defined by the current instance. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeInheritance	Determines whether this attribute is inherited (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributePriority	Gets or sets the priority of the current attribute in case that multiple instances are defined on the same element (lower values are processed before). (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeReplace	Determines whether this attribute replaces other attributes found on the target declarations. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetAssemblies	Gets or sets the assemblies to which the current attribute apply. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetElements	Gets or sets the kind of elements to which this custom attributes applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetExternalMemberAttributes	Gets or sets the visibilities, scopes, virtualities, and implementation of members to which this attribute applies, when the member is external to the current module. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetExternalTypeAttributes	Gets or sets the visibilities of types to which this attribute applies, when this type is external to the current module. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetMemberAttributes	Gets or sets the visibilities, scopes, virtualities, and other characteristics of members to which this attribute applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetMembers	Gets or sets the expression specifying to which members this instance applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetParameterAttributes	Gets or sets the passing style (by value, out or ref) of parameters to which this attribute applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetParameters	Gets or sets the expression specifying to which parameters this instance applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetTypeAttributes	Gets or sets the attributes of types to which this attribute applies. Visibility, scope (Instance or Static) and generation are the only categories that are taken into account; attributes of other categories are ignored. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	AttributeTargetTypes	Gets or sets the expression specifying to which types this instance applies. (Inherited from MulticastAttribute.)
	Severity	Gets or sets the severity of messages emitted by this constraint.

Methods

	Name	Description
	ValidateCode	Validates the constraint. (Overrides ReferentialConstraint.ValidateCode(Object, Assembly).)
	ValidateConstraint	Validates the fact that the constraint has been applied on a valid element of code. When this method returns false, the constraint is silently ignored. (Overrides Constraint.ValidateConstraint(Object).)

Remarks

Reference

PostSharp.Constraints Namespace