Pragma

Did you ever have a piece of code you wanted to be available only in certain conditions ?
In most cases you would add an If statement with the relevant condition.
But what if you had the ability to instruct the compiler not to compile this piece of code ?

Well - with C# you can.
It is called Pragma, which is a part of C# preprocessor directives.
The Pragma provides the compiler with special instructions for the compilation of the file in which it appears.

One useful example is the #if - only when the condition is true, the compiler will compile the code inside the if block.

Example:

#if DEBUG
DoSomething()
#endif 

In this example, the part in the #if will not be compiled when building the code in Release mode..

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