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IsDefined taking an Assembly as a parameter
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Imports System
Imports System.Reflection
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("A sample description")>
Module DemoModule
Sub Main()
Dim assy As System.Reflection.Assembly = GetType(DemoModule).Assembly
Dim assyName As String = assy.GetName().Name
If Attribute.IsDefined(assy, GetType(AssemblyDescriptionAttribute)) Then
Console.WriteLine(assyName)
Dim attr As Attribute = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(assy, GetType(AssemblyDescriptionAttribute))
If Not attr Is Nothing And TypeOf attr Is AssemblyDescriptionAttribute Then
Dim adAttr As AssemblyDescriptionAttribute = CType(attr, AssemblyDescriptionAttribute)
Console.WriteLine(adAttr.Description)
Else
Console.WriteLine("The description could not be retrieved.")
End If
End If
End Sub
End Module
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