Is there an official list of outdated Winforms-Controls

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Hey community!
In work my current task is to update outdated GUI elements. It says the following:
"Some Winform-Controls like StatusBar, ContextMenu and ToolBar are outdated and should be replaced by their descendants StatusStrip, ContextMenuStrip and ToolStrip".

Does anybody know if there are more controls which could be replaced by newer ones? Is there an official list?

Thanks in advance,
Markus

Posted 4-Jun-13 3:17am

NeonMika

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Jun-13 9:27am

I only heard about it in comments you can see in documentation. Such as:
"The DataGridView control replaces and adds functionality to the DataGrid control; however, the DataGrid control is retained for both backward compatibility and future use, if you choose." in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagrid.aspx

I would think this would be enough.

—SA

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It's not a list - official or otherwise - but if you go to MSDN[^] and type

Quote:
obsolete retained backward compatibility

as the search expresson with Library ticked as the source then you can get the information you're after (along with some other stuff - get inventive with the search expression!)

Posted 4-Jun-13 3:58am

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Ron Beyer · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-04T03:27:00

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3beka3sf.aspx[^]

There is no official list that I can find, however as Microsoft says in the above link, the controls are "retained for both backward compatibility and future use, if you choose." Which means that they have new controls that add functionality, but MS isn't saying they are obsoleted and doesn't have a plan to remove them from the framework.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-04T03:41:00

Please see my comment to the question. Even though anyone is free to create such a list, I don't think it could even be "official". The controls are not deprecated or claimed obsolete formally, even if some control is fully or completely superseded by a newer one. (I refer to ObsoleteAttribute, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.obsoleteattribute.aspx[^].)

I think such list just wouldn't make much sense. Look at it in this way: when you choose some available controls for your application, you need to consider its applicability to your design first, not being "cool" or "trendy". You are the ultimate decision maker, not the trend. And you always need to spend good time at it, much more then it would be required to check the comments about some newer control superseding the one you are reading about. All controls are more or less compatible with each other and can be combined in one design.

For a record, your assumption that the newer control superseding another one should be its descendant is not correct. It shouldn't. For example, System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip is not derived from System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu, directly or indirectly:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.contextmenustrip.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.contextmenu.aspx[^].

—SA

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