_DEBUG_

Bill_Thompson · December 30th, 2008, 08:48 PM

I have seen this sort of thing in old MFC procgrams in C++ and I wonder what is the comparable way to do this in C#.

If I want a C# program to run differently in debug mode than in release mode, how do I do it? Don't I use some sort of #ifdef _DEBUG_ command?

dparsons · December 30th, 2008, 09:09 PM

There are two ways to do this in C#.

The first:

c# Code:

#if DEBUG
public string foo()
{
    return "foo";
}
#endif

The other way is:

c# Code:

[Conditional("DEBUG")]
public static void DoSomething()
{
    //Do something here
}

There are significant differences between the two but rather than bore you with it here, you can read an pretty good article that explains the two here: http://www.thinkfarahead.com/2007/09...nditional.html

hth
-Doug