Question

I have a WPF application with three custom configurations. The are as follows:

• Debug
• Deploy_Local
• Deploy_Beta
• Deploy_Live

Obviously I can use a precompiler directive to detect Debug:

#if DEBUG
    // Debug code
#else
    // Non-debug code
#endif

How can I do this with the the remaining three configurations?

Answer 1

I believe this was answered somewhat in: Will #if RELEASE work like #if DEBUG does in C#?

Basically, you do need to also define custom symbols at the project level (in the build tab). So if you name your configuration MY_CONFIG, you will have to add the MY_CONFIG symbol to all the project that you want to handle that configuration specifically. You can then do the same construct as:

#if MY_CONFIG
    Console.WriteLine("MY_CONFIG");
#endif

Hope this helps,

Eric.