Marc
I do not have a configuration selector on my vs screen
Is this due to the fact that I selcted VB as language when I
installed vs???
How do I bring up the configuration selector I cannot
see it on the menus anywhere?
rotsye
"Marc Gravell" <ma**********@gmail.comwrote in message
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At the top of the screen (in VS) is the configuration selector... if
you have Debug selected it builds to obj/debug and bin/debug, and if
you have Release selected it builds to obj/release and bin/release.
The obj folder (in brief - not 100% accurate ;-p) contains blocks that
are either being used by the IDE (designers etc), or by the compiler
while assembling a build. The bin folder contains built code (and
associated files). In general, it is bin/release that you want to
xcopy / robocopy as a deployment.
If you use msbuild (at the command-line) there are many, many more
ways of configuring builds, e.g. publishing to other. Some of these
are available through the IDE (or by hacking your project file by
hand), but not quite all.
Marc