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Enum.ToString() deprecated?

Asked 2010-10-04T22:07:52.313
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When I type .ToString() on an Enum type in Visual Studio, the Intellisense shows a "strike-through" line through ToString() (although it builds and works fine). It seems to indicate that Enum.ToString() is deprecated in some way. Is this true? If so, why?

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The Enum.ToString overloads that take an IFormatProvider, ToString(IFormatProvider) and ToString(String, IFormatProvider), are both obsolete, because the IFormatProvider isn't used anyway.

The other overloads, ToString() and ToString(String), are not obsolete.

It's a feature of ReSharper to strike out obsolete class members. It's apparently not very good at it.

answered 2010-10-04T22:10:26.210

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