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Conditional Compilation in VB.NET

Conditional compilation is useful when you need to make some code available based on some conditions.

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Conditional Compilation

Conditional compilation is useful when you need to make some code available based on some conditions and code snippet in Listing 4 places three statements in a single line. Sometimes for testing purposes or debug purposes, you only want to run certain line of code only when debugging the application. We can simply have a conditional directive and make it true only in case of debugging and make it false one application is all tested.

The class listed in Listing 5 has two constants DEBUG and TESTING. When value of these directives is True, then only Enabled method will be available.

Public Class ConditionalCompilationClass

 

#Const DEBUG = False

#Const TESTING = False

 

#If DEBUG Then

    Sub DebugEnabledMethod()

        Console.WriteLine("Debuging Enabled. ")

    End Sub

#Else

    Sub DebugDisabledMethod()

        Console.WriteLine("Debuging Disabled. ")

    End Sub

#End If

 

#If TEST Then

    Sub TestingEnabledMethod()

        Console.WriteLine("Testing Enabled. ")

    End Sub

#Else

    Sub TestingDisabledMethod()

        Console.WriteLine("Testing Disabled. ")

    End Sub

#End If

End Class

Listing 5


Since value of these directives is false, if you create an instance of ConditionalCompilationClass, you will see only two Disabled methods are available in Intellisense. See Figure 1.


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Figure 1

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