Is there a "debug" and "release" build in VS 2005? If so, how do I switch between the two?
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The quick way is to right click on the toolbars and turn on the standard toobar. Then you can quickly change between build targets by choosing the one you want from the solutions configuration drop down.
If you want to change what those configurations do, then follow what Michael Petrotta said in his answer.
gjutras
2009-07-06 19:17:41
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Use the Configuration Manager. Right-click on your solution in the Solution Explorer, select "Configuration Manager...", and change the active solution configuration.
You can change your project's behavior when in debug or release mode. Bring up your project properties pane, select the appropriate configuration from the dropdowns at top, and change the settings as appropriate. Notice that some changes are made by default for you. For instance, release builds by default are set to optimize code, and debug builds are not.
Michael Petrotta
2009-07-06 19:18:32
dude, all I see is "Active(Debug)".
Saif Khan
2009-07-06 19:26:42
Then perhaps there is only a Debug build in the solution?
Wyatt Barnett
2009-07-06 19:27:48
Wyatt's right on. You can create a new config in the configuration manager.
Michael Petrotta
2009-07-06 20:05:14
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In the ASP.NET web.config file there is a debug="true" attribute. The first time you run the web application Visual Studio will ask you if you want to turn on debugging, selecting yes will cause Visual Studio to edit the config file for you.
Just remember to make sure you change that back to false for your release builds. For more info click here.
Chalkey
2009-07-06 19:27:52
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A:
Saif:
Are you working on an ASP.NET web site project?
If so, Visual Studio delegates the build step to the ASP.NET runtime, and the ASP.NET runtime picks up debug versus release in the web.config .
I have a post on the topic that will help: Debug and Release Builds in ASP.NET 2.0
Note that a couple things have changed since that time. Namely, MSFT released two add-ins for VS 2005 - one to add real web application projects that have debug and release settings (for the code-behind and loose c# files), and they also released web deployment projects, which can use the asp.net command line compiler. Web App projects became a part of VS2005 in SP1, too.
OdeToCode
2009-07-06 19:28:16