Methods and ideas that are no longer used in the current versions of various technologies.
Questions tagged [obsolete]
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Obsolete member field with property accessor (Visual Studio bug)
I have a class with a member that I need to keep for legacy code and I need to mark it as obsolete so that new code doesn't use it (without getting a warning).
Let's say the class looks like this:
class MyClass
{
[Obsolete]
private string…
Mårten Wikström
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How can I replace Marshal.SizeOf(Object) with Marshal.SizeOf()?
I am building a Universal class library from existing code, and I get some compiler warnings that I for the life of it cannot figure out what to do with.
I have code like this:
void SomeMethod(Object data)
{
var size = Marshal.SizeOf(data);
…
Anders Gustafsson
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AzureADDefaults is obsolete
I have following code for Azure AD authentication:
services
.AddAuthorization(options =>
{
options.AddPolicy(name, builder =>
{
builder
…
user3126358
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Configure autofac to ignore constructors marked as obsolete
Is it possible to easily configure autofac so it will only resolve using non-obsolete constructors?
eg for a class with a helper constructor for non-DI code,
public class Example {
public Example(MyService service) {
// ...
}
…
Nick Sonneveld
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XmlReaderSettings.Schemas.Add() : The URI prefix is not recognized
I upgraded my old application in .Net 4.5. There are some obsolete methods warnings I was getting so thought to resolve them. One of the obsolete methods is XmlValidatingReader.
Looked up on the internet and found that XmlReaderSettings is a…
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How do I implement an interface with an obsolete method in VB.NET without suppressing warnings?
I have an interface I, and I have just decided to deprecate method OldMethod (because it's badly named, because I want additional parameters, you name it) and advise users of my library to use NewMethod instead. Thus, I have extended I as…
Heinzi
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Application Insights Behind a Firewall
I'm having issues getting application insights to report data to Visual Studio Online from behind our firewall. I opened the firewall rules noted in this article but it didn't make a difference. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times. The…
dtmnash
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How to solve "The border attribute is obsolete. Consider specifying img { border: 0; } in CSS instead"
I am using an image in my website and the html code for this is as follows,
When I try to validate my page using w3 validation, it gives me the…
When I try to validate my page using w3 validation, it gives me the…
Asad Shakil
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What would "POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete" consequently mean?
Reading man 3 ftw I observe that "POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete".
Now I am concerned and want to be a "nice programmer" and maybe respect obsoleteness of ftw(). Still I struggle now with finding out what else I should use that is now…
humanityANDpeace
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What is my obsolete Facebook API call?
I recently got a notice that I'm using one or more obsolete calls which will impact the website shortly. The problem is that I can't find any useful documentation to determine which call is obsolete and every call that I'm making seems to still be…
Brett Miller
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MonoTouch: UIImage.asJPEG needs a NSError object
To save a UIImage to a PNG or JPEG locally you call the asPNG().Save(...) function.
The asPNG().Save() function requires an out NSError
The problem is that you can no longer just create a blank NSError to pass in like this (Obsolete)
NSError err =…
Ian Vink
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How can I mark a type or member obsolete in an assembly that I do not control?
Example: My colleagues are supposed not to use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Collection anymore, and I'd like the build process to should point them to the replacement type. This sounds like a case for the ObsoleteAttribute, except that I can't set…
Nordic Mainframe
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Why was Pathname's chdir method obsoleted?
Why is Pathname's chdir method obsoleted since ruby 1.8.1? What is wrong with it?
This:
dir = Pathname('a')
dir.chdir do
...
end
is shorter and more readable than this:
dir = Pathname('a')
Dir.chdir(dir) do
...
end
tig
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The meaning of obsolete
I've taken over a project with a lot of legacy code, both C++ and C#, currently compiling under VS 2010 (on windows 7).
When I built my solution, amazingly, 143 projects built successfully. However, there were a boat load of warnings. A…
LawfulEvil
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Ambiguous class name
If have a new project (ProjNew ) where I want to put several classes that are on other project (ProjOld).
The problem is I want to maintain the old classes marked with Obsolete to avoid running all my projects and check if they using it.
But in that…
Pedro Dias
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