Yes, it was officially removed, but we were all warned. They pulled it from the RC candidate after beta 2 but before the official first release. You can find some discussion about this fact in the archive for this list at [1].
-Mike http://staff.develop.com/woodring http://www.develop.com/devresources [1] http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0111A&L=DOTNET&P=R2998 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loc Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: [DOTNET] Has official support for ContextAttributes been removed from .Net? > This was a feature I really looked forward to using in .Net. However, now > that .Net has finally been released, I haven't found a single book that > talks about it. All the posting about this on this discussion group were > dated before the final release of .Net. MSDN help also states "The > ContextAttribute type supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is > not intended to be used directly from your code." Was this capability > pulled from public use? Where I work, we can't really use features that > may be changed by MS in the future. This would be very disappointing news > as the regular attributes (metadata stamping, whoopee doo <sarcastic>) is > practically useless in speeding up software development. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
