Integrating Validation with the Entity Framework: Listing 4.
Retrieving attributes for the entity class.
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Reflection;
private void InvokeDataAnnotations(string Name, object value)
{
object mdtObj = this.GetType().GetCustomAttributes(
typeof(MetadataTypeAttribute), true).FirstOrDefault();
if (mdtObj != null)
{
MetadataTypeAttribute mdt = (MetadataTypeAttribute) mdtObj;
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