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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:28:38+00:00

I’m looking for some way to effectively hide inherited members. I have a library

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I’m looking for some way to effectively hide inherited members. I have a library of classes which inherit from common base classes. Some of the more recent descendant classes inherit dependency properties which have become vestigial and can be a little confusing when using IntelliSense or using the classes in a visual designer.

These classes are all controls that are written to be compiled for either WPF or Silverlight 2.0. I know about ICustomTypeDescriptor and ICustomPropertyProvider, but I’m pretty certain those can’t be used in Silverlight.

It’s not as much a functional issue as a usability issue. What should I do?

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Some of the properties that I would really like to hide come from ancestors that are not my own and because of a specific tool I’m designing for, I can’t do member hiding with the new operator. (I know, it’s ridiculous)

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  1. Override them like Michael Suggests above and to prevent folks from using the overridden (sp?) methods, mark them as obsolete:

    [Obsolete('These are not supported in this class.', true)] public override  void dontcallmeanymore() { }

    If the second parm is set to true, a compiler error will be generated if anyone tries to call that method and the string in the first parm is the message. If parm2 is false only a compiler warning will be generated.

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