Question

I have a WCF application which has the 2 default configurations, Debug and Release. I’ve also added two publishing profiles, Test and Live. throughout my code I make use of a class which has a constructor like so:

public MyClass(string server)
{
    server = server.ToLower();
    switch (server)
    {
        case "live":
            LogonToLive();
            break;
        case "test":
            LogonToTest();
            break;
}

I then use which throughout my application like so:

using(var ax = new MyClass("test"))
{
    // do stuff in my Test Environment
}

What I’d like to do is set up some variables in my web.config which will automatically replace MyClass("test") with the correct server based on which configuration/publish profile I have set. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You could use the trace constants of conditional compiling to determine the build configuration, and pull the desired value from a property in a ‘Configuration’ class, or something:

public static string Server {
  get {
#if DEBUG
    return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key0];
#else
    return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key1];
#endif
  }
}

I think determining the publishing profile is a different kettle of fish, so to speak.