ProgIdAttribute Class

You can apply this attribute to classes.

ProgIDs are automatically generated for a class by combining the namespace with the type name. This can produce an invalid ProgID however, as ProgIDs are limited to 39 characters and can contain no punctuation other than a period. In such case, a ProgID can be manually assigned to the class using ProgIdAttribute.

The following example demonstrates how to apply ProgIdAttribute on a class. The application then gets all attributes of MyClass, and prints the Value property of ProgIdAttribute.

[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDispatch)]
[ProgId("InteropSample.MyClass")]
public class MyClass
{
    public MyClass() {}
}

class TestApplication
{      
   public static void Main()
   {
      try
      {
         AttributeCollection attributes;
         attributes = TypeDescriptor.GetAttributes(typeof(MyClass));
         ProgIdAttribute progIdAttributeObj = (ProgIdAttribute)attributes[typeof(ProgIdAttribute)];
         Console.WriteLine("ProgIdAttribute's value is set to : " + progIdAttributeObj.Value);
      }         
      catch(Exception e)
      {
         Console.WriteLine("Exception : " + e.Message);
      }
   }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

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

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