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SecurityElement.AddAttribute Method

.NET Framework 2.0

Adds a name/value attribute to an XML element.

Namespace: System.Security
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

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public void AddAttribute (
	string name,
	string value
)
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public void AddAttribute (
	String name, 
	String value
)
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public function AddAttribute (
	name : String, 
	value : String
)

Parameters

name

The name of the attribute.

value

The value of the attribute.

Exception type Condition

ArgumentNullException

The name parameter or value parameter is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

ArgumentException

The name parameter or value parameter is invalid in XML.

-or-

An attribute with the name specified by the name parameter already exists.

Names and values in attributes should only contain valid XML attribute characters. XML attribute names must be unique. Use Escape to remove invalid characters from the string.

There is no support for quoted strings, so strings for name/value pairs should not contain quotes or other characters requiring quoting.

The following code shows the use of the AddAttribute method to add a name/value attribute to an XML element. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the SecurityElement class.

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windowsRoleElement.AddAttribute("version","1.00");
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windowsRoleElement.AddAttribute("version", "1.00");

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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