---
title: "Get ready for obsolete stuff in Whidbey today"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/19/get-ready-for-obsolete-stuff-in-whidbey-today.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/19/get-ready-for-obsolete-stuff-in-whidbey-today.html"
published: "2003-11-19T06:33:00"
updated: "2003-11-19T06:33:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Brad Adams gives us a non-official preview of what classes/members will be obsolete when Whidbey comes along. It's good to know these things as soon as possible so you can start moving your code away from them now…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Get ready for obsolete stuff in Whidbey today

By Roy Osherove November 19, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 19, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Brad Adams](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/permalink.aspx/4b6b11db-ff4c-451c-8588-627c7dad085d) gives us a [non-official preview](http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/ObsoletedInWhidbey.htm) of what classes/members will be obsolete when Whidbey comes along. It's good to know these things as soon as possible so you can start moving your code away from them now instead of doing more work in the future. One thing he notes is that “_Just to be clear, these members are still in Whidbey, applications built against them will continue to work, but when you recompile you will be asked to move to the updated version.”_

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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