Quick Question: Whats wrong with this pre-processor directive in C#

Question

Whats wrong with these pre-processor directive in C#

#define OUTPUT_DIRECTORY \"E:\\asdf\\sdfg\\jhkl\\\"

I also tried giving:

Answer 1

You define a symbol. You can't assign a value to it.

Symbols are not variables. See more on MSDN.

The usage could be:

 #ifdef OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
   someVariable = "E:\\asdf\\sdfg\\jhkl\\"
 #endif