Are there attributes in C# for affecting how Intel

Question

Are there any C# attributes that I can apply to class members, to change the way they appear in the Intellisense listings? This popped into my head when I was building a class with many static constants, and I (briefly!) wanted it to look like an enumeration in Intellisense.

Yes, that's silly.

But it got me thinking - is there any way some crazy programmer can make a class members appear differently in the Intellisense? Make fields look like properties, etc?

For instance, there's the Obsolete attribute:

[Obsolete("Stop using this. Really. It's old.")]
public int VariableThatIsReallyOld;

Which prefixes the word [obsolete] to the description of VariableThatIsReallyOld.

Answer 1

Turns out there also some other attributes at Custom intellisense for server controls? (But the search continues!)

[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]

Answer 2

I tend to think that manipulating the comments is a much better proposition.

///<summary>
/// Bomb!
///</summary>
///<example></example><value></value><![CDATA[]]><param name="ss"></param><exception   cref="ss"></exception><remarks></remarks>
///<returns></returns> 

If you dig into the options available in the comment structure(which the intellisense and compiler understands) like <example>,<include>,<see>,<seealso>,<exception> etc, you can pretty get all the functionality sans performance dip introduced by the attribute.

Answer 3

There's the DebuggerDisplay attribute described here.