Using unmanaged code, how can I find a type that has a given custom attribute assigned to it?

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Published on 2010-04-07T07:18:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 7:23 UTC
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I had thought I could enumerate the types using IMetaDataImport.EnumTypeDefs and for each of the tokens returned, call IMetaDataImport.EnumCustomAttributes.

This works, in so much as I get an array of mdCustomAttribute tokens. Using these tokens I can get a metadata token representing the Type of the returned custom attribute, by calling IMetaDataImport.GetCustomAttributeProps.

Comparing my results against ILDASM, I can see that this matches the "CustomAttribute Type" that ILDASM reports. However, I cannot work out how to determine the "CustomAttributeName" that ILDASM reports. This is what I really want!

While I would be interested in knowing how to get the CustomAttributeName, I would settle for an alternate approach to solving the problem.

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