what is different beetween Debug And Release in C#

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When I Want Execute My Program I See 2 Item In Side Of Exe Button(Green Play In VS) there are Debug And Release ....

what is different beetween Debug And Release?

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Thanks A Lot

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Posted 4-May-12 10:05am

Esmaeil Ebrahimi

Updated 4-May-12 11:38am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-04T10:18:00

They are nothing more then two different configurations for the build, those created by default from the project template. You can add your own ones or replace them.

The idea is to have two or mode different sets of project options for different purposes. These sets are named and called configurations. The notion of configuration is known to MSBuild.EXE (but not any of concrete configurations) and project file format (XML schema); you can specify which one to build.

The two default configurations, Debug and Release, cover two basic needs of the development cycle: Debug is good for development and debugging, Release is used when you deploy your software. Please understand that it is possible to have different run-time behavior for different configurations (but very bad is you allow such cases), so both configurations need some testing.

If you want to know all the detail on how they are different, see project's Properties and compare them for different configurations.

—SA

Joshi, Rushikesh · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-04T11:30:00

Solution 2

Addition to Solution1, debug version giving PDB file which used to debug the application at runtime. Refer Microsoft debugger.

Also because Debug version is loading lot of other information and it is strongly advisable to use release version when you are deploying on production to get a better performance.

thanks
rushi

Posted 4-May-12 11:30am

Joshi, Rushikesh

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Philippe Mori 4-May-12 19:47pm

Also assertions are enabled by default for the debug version. For example System.Diagnostic.Debug.Assert(some_condition);

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-May-12 19:52pm

You are right, as well as Rushi (I voted 5 for this answer). I just gave the initial idea on the configuration. Many think Debug and Release are some predefined modes of build, but they are not.
--SA

VJ Reddy 4-May-12 20:54pm

Good addition. 5!