Deprecate other methods/types

Question

To prevent using some members (or type) there is a way to mark them as obsolete (and sometimes in the future remove them completly).

But is there a way to deprecate members (or types) of the compiled third-party assemblies? Or, at least, to make sure (or to issue a warning) when they are used?

Answer 1

Have you considered crafting a custom Code Analysis/FxCop rule?

Answer 2

You could use NDepend for this as well

Answer 3

I suppose you could subclass the entire library (or at least the parts you use) and then deprecate them any way you like.

Answer 4

As you can tell from the answers so far, there isn't a great, built-in way to do this.