How to make a customize component"old"

[andrealu2012]

sometime ,when we open a gh file,we can see some compnent marked"old".
these days,i am updating myself customized component but i am perfer to keep the old one when making a new same name component.so how can i do that?perfer in C#
Thank you!

[Michael_Pryor (ekim)]

Question custom components

Name the class with _OBSOLETE So something like public class Component_ConstructPoint : GH_Component would become public class Component_ConstructPoint_OBSOLETE : GH_Component That will make it have the “old” tag written over the component icon Then set its exposure to hidden so it only comes up when searching with # You can find all GH old components by searching with # so for instance in this case you can search #ConstructPoint to still get access to it in gh. For that you do: pu…

[andrealu2012]

thank you,Micheal,it works!

[Michael_Pryor (ekim)]

Also, don’t forget to change the GUID of the updated component.
I use this GUID generator: https://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

[andrealu2012]

thank you Michael ,i have done the same!