Visual Studio ignores the code inside #if DEBUG / RELEASE scope and doesn't check for errors or autocompletes

Question

I\'ve been writing an #if DEBUG, #else, #endif fragment of code, and I noticed that Visual Studio doesn\'t let me use autocomplete to

Answer 1

I know this is a late answer, but it still applies to this day.

TL;DR: this is a VS bug, which affects only affects netstandard/netcore projects (or simply put, the new .csproj format).

The workaround is... nasty! Reload the project file (or close and reopen VS).

The good news: this does not affect compilation :)

You can read more here and here.