Debugging ASP.NET

What Is Conditional Compiling?

Conditional compiling is a very basic concept that enables you to do some pretty powerful things. Basically, conditional compiling enables you to compile parts of your code based on a certain condition defined at compile time. Generally, this is used if you have a debugging function that you do not want to include in your release build. Or, you might have a function that you want two versions of: one for your debugging and one for a release. The debug version might be littered with output statements or other code that would be too slow to execute in a release environment. With conditional compiling, you could create two versions of the function and flip the switch on which one should be compiled in your program, ...