Release and install

[Guest]

I have 2 question.

1st:
What is the difference between the Debug and Release mode when making an Exe
file, when working at design time or in run time?

2nd:
I was managed to make a setup program for my application in VB.NET 2003 but
I was unable to make an uninstall link for the application on start menu
folder.
How can I make an uninstall program or a link that would be created with the
setup?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

1st:
What is the difference between the Debug and Release mode
when making an Exe file, when working at design time or in run time?

The debug build will be different from the release build. It will include
more 'nop' commands in order to make debugging (stepping through source
code) easier, and a PDB file will be created. This will make execution of
your application slower in debug mode, and it will make reverse engineering
easier.

I suggest to always release the release builds only.

2nd:
I was managed to make a setup program for my application in
VB.NET 2003 but I was unable to make an uninstall link for the
application on start menu folder.

That's bad practice. All software installation should be done over the
"Software" control panel, and the start menu should not be messed up by
uninstal links.