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c#asp.net-mvcvisual-studio-2010publish
Sanja Melnichuk
Sanja Melnichuk

Reputation: 3505

DEBUG defined when publishing

I have a strange issue

#if (!DEBUG)
    checkLicense();
#endif

This is working correctly in both Release and Debug configurations. But when I try to publish using release configuration this condition does not execute. It looks like publish is using the debug dll.

What have I missed?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1840

Answers (3)

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 6517

Alternative to my other answer because I just noticed the mvc tag, whereas before I assumed you were using WebForms.

Is the code snippet you provided by any chance in a View?

Because if that's the case, then the DEBUG setting for your project is not going to be respected when the View is generated at runtime - it will only respect a debug flag in your web.config file.

See this answer for more information.

Upvotes: 0

Ryan
Ryan

Reputation: 6517

There is a setting to control whether the DEBUG constant is defined for each project based on the different deployment modes. See this answer to verify that the constant is being defined for 'release mode' by making sure the Define DEBUG constant checkbox is checked.

If the box isn't checked, then your debug code is being removed by the preprocessor before compiling your site and no code will execute, even if you include the ELSE as the other answer suggested.

If that doesn't work, then another possibility is be that the machine you're running your release code on could have its machine.config with the deployment element:

<deployment retail="true" />

This element overrides the web.config setting for your application and sets the debug flag to false for all .NET applications on the machine.

So if possible, check that. Although I think the first option I gave you is much more likely.

Upvotes: 3

Shlomi.K
Shlomi.K

Reputation: 71

first of all you have to make sure that you step into this "if" and use try\catch.

#if (!DEBUG)
MessageBox.Show("I'm in");
try{
    checkLicense();}
catch{MessageBox.Show("ERROR IN checkLicense");}
#endif

and than take a version out and run it. If you are in the "if", you will know it and if you have an exception, you will know it also.

You can try also

#if DEBUG
....
#else
.....

Upvotes: 0

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