#if DEBUG directive

Question

   #if DEBUG
                        mailMessage = new MailMessage("someEmail.com", "someEmail.com", subject, messsageBody);
   #else
                        mailMessage = new MailMessage(Membership.GetUser().Email, cppAccount.Email, subject, messsageBody);
   #endif

I have the above code but even when I publish on release it still uses the debug statement. This is an mvc4 c# project and this code is in one of my model classes.

Answer 1

That is not the best way to do what you are trying. You should do this in web.config with an app setting for example.

<add key="MailMessageEnabled" value="true" />

And then in your cs file do something like -

bool isEnabled = bool.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MailMessageEnabled"]);
mailMessage = isEnabled ? new MailMessage(Membership.GetUser().Email, cppAccount.Email, subject, messsageBody) 
            : new MailMessage("someEmail.com", "someEmail.com", subject, messsageBody);

And you can have the value of the config to be true in default web config and false in release web config