What is release folder?

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_{Monday, October 13, 2014 4:34 AM}

What is bin\Release folder in visual studio project? 

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_{Monday, October 13, 2014 4:39 AM | 1 vote}

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0e946e63-a481-45b1-990d-af727914ff15/bin-and-obj-folder-confusion?forum=vbide

_{Monday, October 13, 2014 5:16 AM | 1 vote}

What is bin\Release folder in visual studio project? 

It's the output folder when you set the Build Configuration to Release.

While bin\Debug is the output folder when you set the Build Configuration to Debug.

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_{Monday, October 13, 2014 6:38 AM | 1 vote}

Thanks for sandeepallu and Ferry’s help.

Hi Gadde,

Thank you for posting in the MSDN forum.

I think sandeepallu and Ferry share us the useful information here.

Like the following screen shot, the bin\release or debug folder would be related to the build configuration, of course, you could also open it under the menu Build->Configuration Manager.

If you really want to know more about the release, I think we need to know the differences between the Release and Debug.

•The Debug configuration of your program is compiled with full symbolic debug information and no optimization. Optimization complicates debugging, because the relationship between source code and generated instructions is more complex.

•The Release configuration of your program contains no symbolic debug information and is fully optimized. Debug information can be generated in PDB Files, depending on the compiler options that are used. Creating PDB files can be very useful if you later have to debug your release version.

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wx0123s5.aspx

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/4de6861f-e723-4def-bcaf-aa717a3e1897/difference-between-debug-and-release-in-net?forum=clr

Best Regards,

Jack

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_{Monday, October 13, 2014 6:58 AM | 1 vote}

Hi,

When you build the project and emit the binaries using Visual Studio based on the build configuration it generate and copies the files sub folder under the Visual Studio project folder called "Bin\Release" by default, if you are using Release Build configuration build.

Hope this helps!

Cheers, Senthilraj