The method is still there, but it has the EditorBrowsableState.Never attribute set. So Intellisence won't show it in the auto completion drop-down, but you can still use it and the project should compile fine.

Stoyan

Now there is a TypeConverter associated with Brush that allows converting Brush-derived objects from / to string, and I suppose our developer might have decided that's enough...

Many .NET services use type converters automatically (possibly data-binding too), but you can also explicitly get a converter and apply it like this:

TypeConverter converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(e.Node.Brush);
string brushString = converter.ConvertToString(e.Node.Brush);

Stoyan