Deployment project in VisualStudio: Is the output in Debug or Releaase mode?

Question

I have a solution in Visual studio containing a winform project(WinProj) and a deployment project for WinProj.

I added to the deployment project the primary output from WinProj. Does it be compiled in Debug or Release mode?

I am asking because in the WinProj code I have conditional precompiler statements

#if DEBUG
    throw;
#endif

will or not be considered this code in the setup project?

By default I don't switch the mode when building the setup project(remains in Debug). So should I?

Answer 1

This will depend whether you compile your deployment and setup projects in Debug or Release modes.

Answer 2

Actually, I am not sure if I understand the question. Setup projects sould be created with release-built binaries. Inner IL is more efficient when compiled in release mode. You may take a look with ildasm, difference in il code is huge.