setting references with preprocessor directives

[Bob]

Hi,
Is it possible to change the references in a project based upon
changing preprocesor symbols?

Thanks,
Bob

[Peter Duniho]

Re: setting references with preprocessor directives

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:16:08 -0700, Bob <bshumsky06@yah oo.comwrote:

Is it possible to change the references in a project based upon
changing preprocesor symbols?

I'm not sure. I don't think so, but haven't explored that fully. But,
you should be able to use the configuration manager to create a build
configuration where a particular preprocessor symbol is set appropriately
and the associated library is referenced. Both the symbol and the
reference would be dependent on the build configuration, rather than
making the reference dependent on the symbol. But that may be close
enough to what you want.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: setting references with preprocessor directives

Bob <bshumsky06@yah oo.comwrote:

Is it possible to change the references in a project based upon
changing preprocesor symbols?

Not based on preprocessor symbols as far as I'm aware, but if you tweak
the build file you can change references based on build configurations
(which can also change the preprocessor symbols of course). We do this
for MiscUtil. For instance, we've got sections like this:

<ItemGroup Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)' != 'Release 2.0' ">
<Reference Include="System .Core">
<RequiredTarget Framework>3.5</RequiredTargetF ramework>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="System .Xml.Linq">
<RequiredTarget Framework>3.5</RequiredTargetF ramework>
</Reference>
</ItemGroup>

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