Obsolete Member Usage

Flags usages of members marked as obsolete with an @Obsolete("justification") Rubberduck annotation.

Reasoning

Marking members as obsolete can help refactoring a legacy code base. This inspection is a tool that makes it easy to locate obsolete member calls.

Default severity

Warning

Inspection type

NamingAndConventionsIssues

Examples

This example should trigger a result

MyModule (StandardModule)
Public Sub DoSomething() DoStuff ' member is marked as obsolete End Sub '@Obsolete("Use the newer DoThing() method instead") Private Sub DoStuff() ' ... End Sub Private Sub DoThing() ' ... End Sub

This example should NOT trigger a result

MyModule (StandardModule)
Public Sub DoSomething() DoThing End Sub '@Obsolete("Use the newer DoThing() method instead") Private Sub DoStuff() ' ... End Sub Private Sub DoThing() ' ... End Sub

Rubberduck.CodeAnalysis.Inspections.Concrete.ObsoleteMemberUsageInspection.cs (Prerelease-v2.5.9.6289)