Is there a way to get VS2008 to stop warning me about unreachable code?

Question

I have a few config options in my application along the lines of

const bool ExecuteThis=true;
const bool ExecuteThat=false;

and then code that

Answer 1

To disable:

#pragma warning disable 0162

To restore:

#pragma warning restore 0162

For more on #pragma warning, see MSDN.

Please note that the C# compiler is optimized enough to not emit unreachable code. This is called dead code elimination and it is one of the few optimizations that the C# compiler performs.

And you shouldn't willy-nilly disable the warnings. The warnings are a symptom of a problem. Please see this answer.