title: Hiding inherited members
body: <p>I'm looking for some way to effectively hide inherited members. I have a library of classes which inherit from common base classes.  Some of the more recent descendant classes inherit dependency properties which have become vestigial and can be a little confusing when using <em>IntelliSense</em> or using the classes in a visual designer.</p>
  
  <p>These classes are all controls that are written to be compiled for either WPF or Silverlight 2.0.  I know about <code>ICustomTypeDescriptor</code> and <code>ICustomPropertyProvider</code>, but I'm pretty certain those can't be used in Silverlight.  </p>
  
  <p>It's not as much a functional issue as a usability issue.  What should I do?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>Some of the properties that I would really like to hide come from ancestors that are not my own and because of a specific tool I'm designing for, I can't do member hiding with the <code>new</code> operator.  (I know, it's ridiculous)</p>