Can StructureMap be configured so that one can use different .config settings based on whether the project was built in debug or release mode?

Question

I know that in StructureMap I can read from my *.config files (or files referenced by them), when I want to pass specific arguments to an object's constructor.

ForRequestedType<IConfiguration>()
                .TheDefault.Is.OfConcreteType<SqlServerConfiguration>()
                .WithCtorArg("db_server_address")
                .EqualToAppSetting("data.db_server_address")

But what I would like to do is read from one config setting in debug mode and another in release mode.

Sure I could surround the .EqualToAppSetting("data.db_server_address"), with #if DEBUG, but for some reason those statements make me cringe a little when I put them in. I'd like to know if there was some way to do this with the StructureMap library itself.

So can I feed my objects different settings based on whether the project is built in debug or release mode?

Answer 1

StructureMap has no built-in detection of "debug" or "release" mode.

However, when you programmatically configure StructureMap via its DSL (in a Registry, or a call to Initialize() or Configure() on the container), you are using the C# language. You can do anything that C# allows. So your question becomes "is there a way in c# to conditionally run some code differently in debug mode", to which the most obvious answer will likely be the conditional compilation directives that make you feel bad.