Question

I’d like the line to execute when running within Visual Studio but not when the exe is running stand alone.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do you mean when a debugger is attached? If so, you could do something like this:

#if DEBUG
if (Debugger.IsAttached)
{
    //Your code here
}
#endif

This will only run when the debugger is attached, such as running with F5. Double clicking it or using Ctrl+F5 won’t cause the if statement to be hit. It’s also wrapped in a conditional so then when you compile to release the code is not even there.