How to program three editions Light, Pro, Ultimate in one solution
- by Henry99
I'd like to know how best to program three different editions of my C# ASP.NET 3.5 application in VS2008 Professional (which includes a web deployment project).
I have a Light, Pro and Ultimate edition (or version) of my application.
At the moment I've put all in one solution with three build versions in configuration manager and I use preprocessor directives all over the code (there are around 20 such constructs in some ten thousand lines of code, so it's overseeable):
#if light
//light code
#endif
#if pro
//pro code
#endif //etc...
I've read in stackoverflow for hours and thought to encounter how e.g. Microsoft does this with its different Windows editions, but did not find what I expected.
Somewhere there is a heavy discussion about if preprocessor directives are evil.
What I like with those #if-directives is:
the side-by-side code of differences,
so I will understand the code for the
different editions after six months
and the special benefit to NOT give
out compiled code of other versions
to the customer.
OK, long explication, repeated question:
What's the best way to go?
