Conditionally exclude from Release build

[Nevyn Twyll]

I have a bunch of test case classes (.cs) files in my executable.
For security and bloat reasons, I don't want them to compile into a Release
executable - only into a Debug build.

How do I conditionally exclude files or classes from my Release builds?

In old C++ we would use #ifdef ... #endif statements, but we don't have
pragmas in C# (or don't seem to).

Help?

 

[Sherif ElMetainy]

Hello

Yes you have

#if DEBUG
// your debug code here
#else
// your release code here
#endif

Best regards,
Sherif

 

[Guest]

did you look hard enough?

there's #if #else #elif #endif #define #undef directives you can use in C#.

hope that helps.

 

[Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]]

The previous posters pointed out the existence of preprocessor directives in
C#.

However, you can also make individual methods conditional by using the
Conditional attribute, e.g.

[Conditional("Debug")]
public void foo() {
// some code
}

There are a few conditions however:

1. The method must be in a struct or class declaration (not an interface)
2. The return type must be void
3. You must not use the override modifier (virtual is OK)
4. The conditional method must not be an implementation of an interface
method.

Hope that helps.

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Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]

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