Question

As you’re developing you often use things like

throw new NotImplementedException("Finish this off later") 

or

// TODO - Finish this off later

as a placeholder to remind you to finish something off – but these can be missed and mistakenly end up in the release.

You could use something like

#if RELEASE
   Finish this off later
#endif

so it won’t compile in Release build – but is there a more elegant way?

Answer 1

I saw an elegant implementation here

#if DEBUG

namespace FakeItEasy
{
    using System;
    using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;

    /// <summary>
    /// An exception that can be thrown before a member has been
    /// implemented, will cause the build to fail when not built in 
    /// debug mode.
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
    [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design",   
        "CA1032:ImplementStandardExceptionConstructors", 
        Justification = "Never used in production.")]
    public class MustBeImplementedException
        : Exception
    {
    }
}

#endif