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Visual Studio - How to remove a reference in Release mode

I'm developing a library for use in other apps and this library has lots of debugging and logging statements thanks to NLog.

Is it possible to exclude the reference to NLog.dll when I switch to release mode?

Cheers,

Solution

  • You can manually edit the csproj file, and do something like this:

    <Reference Include="NLog" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'" />

    This only makes it reference that assembly in Debug. I wouldn't recommend doing this often though, because this behavior isn't reflected in the references list in Visual Studio when you change the configuration. It does work when compiling though