I'm working in VS 2013 with a C# Xamarin iOS project. I would like to add a Conditional compilation symbol without effecting anyone else or having to go into Configuration Manager and say copying Debug (primarily so that if someone modifies Debug I don't miss the change).
I've read a few posts stating to try adding something like this to the csproj.user file ...
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
<DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);__MY_NEW_SYMBOL__</DefineConstants>
</PropertyGroup>
... but this just removes all the other symbols for the project.
Is there a way I can modify the csproj.user file to achieve this?
I see this is a really old question. I'm not sure if anyone is actually using VS 2013 anymore, but it works in VS2017, exactly the way it's done in the question.
But! I had to run Build -> Clean Solution first before it worked. 'Rebuild Solution' didn't even do it. I had to Clean first, then build and run it.
I tested it with this code:
Even though my .user file only defines
__MY_NEW_SYMBOL__
, I saw all three in the console after running it.My .csproj file has this:
And my .csproj.user file has this: