I generally like MSDN's documentation, despite Google always sending me to an old version every single time (get on top of your SEO, Microsoft). That said...
Fairly recently, I was looking in to controlling a service using C# and while the docs claimed that System.Management was deprecated, I could not find code samples anywhere that did what I needed without using System.Management.
It doesn't seem like it's actually deprecated, and I couldn't find any corroborating claims that System.Management was deprecated, the mention only seems to exist on a single MSDN page. This one, in fact: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
> Classes in the Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure namespace. (The System.Management namespace is no longer supported). For more information, see WMI .NET Overview.
What exactly does "no longer supported" mean if not deprecated? Why is it still in use if it's not supported? Why don't the System.Management docs mention this at all?
Full disclosure, I'm saying this as a very non-C# guy, so my relative inexperience with that ecosystem is absolutely a factor. But my thinking is that, if you're already a decently skilled programmer, you should at least be able to interpret documentation so long as it's not astoundingly terrible. In this case, there isn't a clear answer to my question, so I'm just left feeling like I'm writing doomed code.
Sorry for the rant. It's a relatively minor gripe, to be sure, but it needs fixing.
Fairly recently, I was looking in to controlling a service using C# and while the docs claimed that System.Management was deprecated, I could not find code samples anywhere that did what I needed without using System.Management.
It doesn't seem like it's actually deprecated, and I couldn't find any corroborating claims that System.Management was deprecated, the mention only seems to exist on a single MSDN page. This one, in fact: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
> Classes in the Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure namespace. (The System.Management namespace is no longer supported). For more information, see WMI .NET Overview.
What exactly does "no longer supported" mean if not deprecated? Why is it still in use if it's not supported? Why don't the System.Management docs mention this at all?
Full disclosure, I'm saying this as a very non-C# guy, so my relative inexperience with that ecosystem is absolutely a factor. But my thinking is that, if you're already a decently skilled programmer, you should at least be able to interpret documentation so long as it's not astoundingly terrible. In this case, there isn't a clear answer to my question, so I'm just left feeling like I'm writing doomed code.
Sorry for the rant. It's a relatively minor gripe, to be sure, but it needs fixing.