ASCOM.Attributes

An attribute for declaratively associating an assembly, class or property with an ASCOM device ID (and optionally, a display name).

This attribute is intended for use in two main situations: Settings management and integration with Visual Studio designers When this attribute is placed on the driver's Properties.Settings class, it propagates down to each of the settings properties. When the setting is passed to the ASCOM.SettingsProvider class at runtime, the settings provider looks for this attribute to determine which settings hive to save the value in when it is passed to . Deployment The values in this attribute could be used by an installer custom action to perform ASCOM registration during setup. Historically this has been handled programmatically, but there are trends towards a more declarative approach to deployment (for example WiX, Windows Installer Xml). It is expected that such an installer may need to obtain registration data by reflecting on the assemblies being installed. Placing this attribute at the assembly level will assist in this situation.

Initializes a new instance of the class.

The ASCOM device ID (aka COM ProgID) to be associated with the class. Recommended usage is: [DeviceId("ASCOM.SuperDuper.Telescope", DeviceName="SuperDuper Deluxe")] In the event that the DeviceName optional parameter is not set, it will return the DeviceId.

Gets the ASCOM DeviceID, also known as the COM ProgID.

Gets or sets the display name of the device. This would be the short display name, as displayed in the ASCOM Chooser.

The name of the device.

An attribute that confers a 'friendly name' on a class and marks it as loadable by LocalServer. The 'friendly name' is used by the ASCOM LocalServer to register the class with the ASCOM Chooser. The 'friendly name' is what gets displayed to the user in the driver selection combo box. This attribute is also used by the LocalServer to filter the assemblies that it will attempt to load at runtime. LocalServer will only load classes bearing this attribute.

Initializes a new instance of the class.

The 'friendly name' of the served class.

Gets or sets the 'friendly name' of the served class, as registered with the ASCOM Chooser.

The 'friendly name' of the served class.