Question

I am drawing a blank here for something that should be simple…

I am trying to do something like:

    <my:control runat="server" id="myid" Visible="<%= (is compilation debug mode?) %>" />

Answer 1

This should get you the <compilation> element in the <system.web> section group:

using System.Web.Configuration ;

. . .

CompilationSection compilationSection = (CompilationSection)System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(@"system.web/compilation") ;

. . .

// check the DEBUG attribute on the <compilation> element
bool isDebugEnabled = compilationSection.Debug ;

Easy!