warning CS0618: ‘Device.OS’ is obsolete: ‘TargetPlatform is obsolete as of version 2.3.4. Please use RuntimePlatform instead.’

Here is a couple of compiler generated warnings I found on project I was recently reviewing:

  1. warning CS0618: ‘Device.OS’ is obsolete: ‘TargetPlatform is obsolete as of version 2.3.4. Please use RuntimePlatform instead.’
  2. warning CS0612: ‘TargetPlatform’ is obsolete

A CS0612 is generated when the code references a type or member to wich the parameterless ObsoleteAttribute was applied.

CS0618 is generated when the code references a type or member to wich a parameterized ObsoleteAttribute was applied.

In this case, the reference to Device.OS has to be replaced with a reference to Device.RuntimePlatform.

Since Device.OS was an enum of type TargetPlatform and Device.RuntimePlatform is a string, it is necessary to update the right hand of the expression as well.

For that you can use one of the string constants defined on the Device class:

  • iOS;
  • Android;
  • WinPhone;
  • UWP;
  • WinRT;
  • macOS;

Here’s how the code looked like originally:

And here’s how the looks code after the update:

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Alfred Myers

I have been interested in computers since I got my hands on a magazine about digital electronics back in 1983 and programming them has been paying the bills since 1991. Having focused on Microsoft-centric technology stacks for the best part of two decades, in recent years I’ve been educating myself on open source technologies such as Linux, networking and the open web platform.