Intention to deprecate: Dev() method will no longer be supported

[atruskie]

The command line interface (CLI) was designed to support supplying arguments through code during development.

This is bad practice because:

• irrelevant code and CLI arguments are checked into the repository
• a build is required to run the application with different arguments
• discourages actual use of the CLI (and thus we aren't dogfooding our product)
• custom and complex code was written to support this use case

Alternatives

• To support easy launching I recommend using this plugin: SwitchStartupProject
• We also have a (Windows only) automatic debug feature that can be used by specifying the -d switch on the command line
  • In this case, the recommended method to save often used commands is a text document saved somewhere outside this repository
• Write unit tests that test functionality automatically (not feasible for all cases)
• We're in the process of writing better documentation (Improve AP.exe documentation #130) which should alleviate some of the code based documentation provided by these methods.

Migration

We're going to sunset this feature very slowly. During this time sunsetting will involve various stages:

1. [Obsolete] attributes will be attached to Dev methods
2. NotSupportedExceptions will slowly replace Dev() calls
3. Dev methods and files will be deleted

[atruskie]

All Dev methods were successfully removed in acfd88b