Debug Mode In VB 6?

Question

How can I do something similar to the following C code in VB 6?

#ifdef _DEBUG_
    // do things
#else
    // do other things
#end if

Answer 1

Cody has told you about conditional compilation. I'd like to add that if you want different behaviour when debugging on the IDE (e.g. turn off your own error handling so that the IDE traps errors) you don't need conditional compilation. You can detect the IDE at runtime like this.

On Error Resume Next 
Debug.Print 1/0 
If Err=0 then 
  'Compiled Binary 
Else 
  'in the IDE 
End if

This works because Debug.Print is omitted in the compiled EXE.

• EDIT Remember to turn off On Error Resume Next !
• EDIT You can wrap the check in a function like this (thanks CraigJ)