A statement written in the source code of a program that lets the programmer instruct the compiler to perform a specific operation within the compilation phase. For example, the #include directive ...

This article, and the one to follow, are based on a Software Development class I taught a few years ago. The students in this class were non-programmers who had been hired to receive bug reports for a ...

Information that is usually in the .csproj project file for normal .NET projects is set in File-based Apps using a preprocessor directive. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is the technical director of the ...