tell if site is a debug build?

[Brian Henry]

I am trying to tell if my site is running as a debug build or not in asp.net
1.1 you could say

#IF DEBUG
DO SOMETHING HERE
#ENDIF

but in ASP.NET 2.0 it seems not to work anymore... why not?! i have
debug="false" in web config and the debug code still runs...

 

[Guest]

On the Visual Studio menu under Build/Configuration change the active
configuration to "Release". The "debug" code will not be included in the
resulting executable.

 

[Brian Henry]

thast what I always did in .NET 1.1 and 1.0 but in 2.0 that doesn't work any
more when you have #if debug directives in it for some reason... my #debug
code always runs release or debug build

 

[Scott Allen]

thast what I always did in .NET 1.1 and 1.0 but in 2.0 that doesn't work any
more when you have #if debug directives in it for some reason... my #debug
code always runs release or debug build

Right - those options aren't available in 2.0.

Are you using a filed based web site or one in IIS? I can see my code
not executing inside #if DEBUG if I turn debugging off and run with
CTRL-F5. Perhaps you could clean out the Temporary ASP.NET files
directory and see what happens.

 

[ron]

I'm having the same problem. Using the compiler directive #IF DEBUG
around my code, works when debugging, but when I set the

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="false">

in web.config for release build, the debug statements still run, ie the
DEBUG constant is still set to true.

Any thoughts or alternative solutions anyone?

 

[Patrice]

Where do you have this #if test (in ASPX markup or in a code behing file) ?
My first thought would be that you disabled debug for ASPX pages but that
you still have in /bin a code behind DLL compiled in Debug mode...

Is this 1.1 or 2.0 ? Which compilation model are you using ?

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Patrice

I'm having the same problem. Using the compiler directive #IF DEBUG
around my code, works when debugging, but when I set the

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="false">

in web.config for release build, the debug statements still run, ie the
DEBUG constant is still set to true.

Any thoughts or alternative solutions anyone?

 

[Scott Allen]

Here is some more information:
http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/11/15/2464.aspx