Question

I am new to C# and Visual Studio, and this may be a silly question but I do have to find an answer. My question is is it possible to differentiate debug and release builds in such a way the certain lines of code(in my case MessageBox.Show(…)) are compiled if I build under Debug mode, but are left out if I build under Release mode?

Answer 1

Wrap the lines of code in #if DEBUG statements:

#if DEBUG
    MessageBox.Show("Message");
#endif

If you want to do different things in release then you can have:

#if DEBUG
    MessageBox.Show("Message");
#else
    // Write to log file
#endif

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