ConfigurationAttribute.GetMetadata(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Web.Administration

Assembly:

Microsoft.Web.Administration.dll

Gets attribute metadata from the IIS 7 configuration system.

public:
 System::Object ^ GetMetadata(System::String ^ metadataType);

public object GetMetadata (string metadataType);

member this.GetMetadata : string -> obj

Public Function GetMetadata (metadataType As String) As Object

Parameters

metadataType

String

The name of the metadata to return.

Returns

Object

The attribute metadata that matches the requested metadataType from the IIS 7 configuration system.

Examples

The following example gets the metadata for each of the configuration attributes. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the ConfigurationAttribute class.

// Get the attributes again, after the commit changes.
Configuration config2 = manager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration();
configSection = config2.GetSection("system.web/anonymousIdentification");
configAttributeCollection = configSection.Attributes;
Console.WriteLine("There are " +
    configAttributeCollection.Count.ToString() +
    " Configuration attributes.");
attribute = configAttributeCollection[1];
Console.WriteLine("metadata: " +
    attribute.GetMetadata("encryptionProvider"));
// Display each configuration attribute with properties and metadata.
foreach (ConfigurationAttribute configAttribute in configAttributeCollection)
{
    Console.WriteLine("\t{0}\t{1}\t{2}\t{3}",
         configAttribute.Name,
         configAttribute.Value,
         configAttribute.IsProtected,
         configAttribute.GetMetadata("encryptionProvider"));
}

See also

• SetMetadata(String, Object)