"Inheritance" Attribute: what does it do?

Question

I happened across an attribute in c# that's called [Inheritance]. Microsoft's documentation on the attribute is somewhat limited. The attribute has only one property which is an enumeration they call inheritance level. That's about all I could find by googling about. So here are my questions:

• Does the attribute actually do anything or is it just a notation?

• If it does do anything, does it enforce inheritance (or lack thereof) by throwing a compile time error?

• Or, can it actually change what IS inherited? ex) InheritanceLevel.NotInherited is selected, does it then cancel out inheritance?

Answer 1

• It does not do anything, it is a notation used internally by the compiler / linker

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• N/A