When to use preprocessor directives in .net?

Question

I think this is a simple question so I assume I\'m missing something obvious. I don\'t really ever use preprocessor directives but I was looking at someone\'s code which di

Answer 1

I would like to give one example where I have used preprocessor directive in my project.

My program creates lot of intermediate files on disk. I used #DEBUG directive to delete those files only if my project is in release mode, otherwise I keep those file so that we can view those intermediate files and determine whats happening inside.

When my app is working on production server, I build project in release mode so those files are deleted after processing is complete.

#if (DEBUG==false)
    deleteTempFiles()
#endif