How to ignore compiler warning when using Obsolete attribute on a class used with a Knowntype attribute

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Jace Rhea picture Jace Rhea · Mar 11, 2011 · Viewed 42.7k times · Source

So we are trying to deprecate some of our existing classes, and have started marking them as obsolete with the ObsoleteAttribute so they will stop being used. The fact that using the KnownType attribute with a type that is marked with the Obsolete attribute and is causing a compiler warning is expected. However, in our project we have warnings treated as errors so ignoring the warning isn't an option. Is there a compiler directive to suppress this warning?

The following usage causes a compiler warning:

///ProductTemplateDataSet is marked with the Obsolete attribute
[KnownType(typeof(ProductTemplateDataSet))]
public class EntityCollectionBase : System.Data.DataSet
{

}

Edit: I understand using compiler directives to ignore errors, but this compiler warning doesn't have a number.

Answer

Jordão picture Jordão · Mar 11, 2011

Use this to disable the corresponding warnings just before the offending line:

#pragma warning disable 612, 618

And reenable the warnings after it:

#pragma warning restore 612, 618

Curiously enough, there're 2 warnings related to this: CS0612 and CS0618 - one is for [Obsolete] and the other for [Obsolete("Message")]. Go figure...

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