Depreciated???

[pnslcs]

What does it mean when a method is listed as "Depreciated"? Thanks, Patrick

[Scott Dorman]

It means that a replacement method has been created and that the depricated one should no longer be used. The idea is that eventually any methods that have been depricated may show up as compiler errors (instead of warnings) and then be removed completely. Marking the method as depricated gives you time to update the code that used the older method.

Scott.

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[DavidNohejl]

In addition to Scott's post, in .net it's done by applying ObsoleteAttribute to method.

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