Stefan, Touché! I humbly acknowledge the vast superiority of C# on this feature. :-) Unfortunately, the VB compiler (which I am constrained to use) does not share the ability to remove unused assembly references. Is there any way (or possibly an add-in) that would allow VB to behave the same way?
Thanks! Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Holdermans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:33 AM To: Matthew Bertram; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Add Declaritive Reference To Assembly Matthew, When the code in your Release configuration does not use any of the types from a particular assembly A, then the resulting assembly will not include any references to A. For instance: I've a library project that makes uses of the types in the assembly nunit.framework *only* in Debug configuration: #if DEBUG [TestFixture] public class My Tester { /* ... */ } #endif When I compile defining the DEBUG symbol, the resulting assembly contains a reference to nunit.framework in its manifest: .assembly extern nunit.framework { .publickeytoken = (96 D0 9A 1E B7 F4 4A 77 ) .ver 2:0:6:0 } But when I compile without defining the DEBUG symbol, the reference does not end up in the manifest. HTH, Stefan >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew >Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:53 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Add Declaritive Reference To Assembly > > >Hi, > >I'm trying to include a reference to a particular assembly >when in debug mode, but not when in release mode. Here is an example: > >#If DEBUG Then > >'Add declaritive reference to assembly > >#End If > >Is there a way to do this (like the snippet above) without >having to manually add/remove the assembly in VStudio, or run >command line builds? > >Thanks! > >Matthew >
