Debug/release ASP pages?

[Guest]

When building a windows forms application in C#, I notice that you get two different folders for different builds, debug and release. But when building a web application there is only one, c:\inetpub\wwwroot\<projectname>\bin ..

Am I right in thinking that whether the current build that is prevalent is dependent on what build was done most recently? Is there a magic button or way of defining a macro to "switch to release mode, build, then switch back to debug" ?

 

[Artem Kliatchkine]

You need to set debug="true" in Web.config file, here is the magic.
Have a look at "Debugging ASP.NET Web Applications During Development"
in MSDN.

Artem

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Basically what you say is true, in a web app there is only one directory
where the last build is stored, and is the last compilation result what you
will find there.
This is very easy to see, create a web project compile it and you will see
in the \bin directory the pdb files (that contains debug info) now if you
change to release and compile again you will see that the pdb files are
gone.

Cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

When building a windows forms application in C#, I notice that you get two

different folders for different builds, debug and release. But when building

Am I right in thinking that whether the current build that is prevalent is

dependent on what build was done most recently? Is there a magic button or
way of defining a macro to "switch to release mode, build, then switch back
to debug" ?

 

[Bonj]

They don't disappear. They don't get created again, but they don't
disappear.