Obsolete an entire namespace?

Question

Can I mark an entire namespace as obsolete in .NET Framework (3.5 and 4) somehow, or alternativly an entire project?

Answer 1

It is not possible. I guess reason is that namespace can span accross different assemblies and even users of the library can use same namespace, so it would obsolete not only your code. Namespace is basically a syntax sugar for name prefix. Namespace can not even be target of an attribute.

Answer 2

Obsolete attribute can not be applied to namespaces. The ObsoleteAttribute is decorated with [AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Class|AttributeTargets.Struct|AttributeTargets.Enum|AttributeTargets.Constructor|AttributeTargets.Method|AttributeTargets.Property|AttributeTargets.Field|AttributeTargets.Event|AttributeTargets.Interface|AttributeTargets.Delegate, Inherited = false)] .