Does VS have a 'if running in studio' flag?

[foldface]

Hi
Sorry, don't know how to phrase the question any better.
Within Visual Studio I have a style sheet that being dynamically
added to the code, i.e. not via the html page. I want to place this
within
a html page so that the VS designer can see the style sheet but the
running
executable can't

#ifdef RUNNING_IN_VS
// include the style sheet
#endif

I also want to do the same thing within user controls. If their
running
in an executable I want them to do different things compared to if
their
having their properties examined via the call:

ComponentDesigner::InitializeInheritedProperties

I can think of contrived ways of doing this, having a UserControl
with a
property 'Running' which the executable sets but obviously VS won't
but I'd rather a cleaner way of doing it.


Thanks
F

 

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

F,

The way I would do this is check for HttpApplication.Context. This will be
null if you are in the designer.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
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[foldface]

The way I would do this is check for HttpApplication.Context. This will be

null if you are in the designer.

Will this work from a static method?

 

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

Foldface,

I haven't explicitly tested this in a static method, but I'm sure it will
work.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
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[foldface]

I haven't explicitly tested this in a static method, but I'm sure it will

work.

Sorry but how do you do this? Via Application["Context"]? That
doesn't seem to work? Can you give me just a quick noddy example,
about 3 lines worth?

Thanks

F

 

[foldface]

Sorry but how do you do this?

Just to answer my own question

if(Context == null)

 

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

Yes, that's right. Sorry. I've been out of the office for several days.

Jim Cheshire, MCSE, MCSD [MSFT]
Developer Support
ASP.NET
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