Debug VS. Release

I am using Visual Studio 2005 pro edition and developing in Visual Basic. i am trying to change from debug to release version, but am unable to. i try to follow the directions in the help, but i do not have the menu options help is directing me to. help claims this:

"On theStandard toolbar, clickDebugorRelease from theSolution Configurations list box."

in my installation, the solutions configurations list box is NOT on the standard toolbar by default, and if i add it manually, it is ALWAYS grayed out. also, i do NOT have the configurations manager item on the build menu. my build menu only contains build, rebuild, clean and publish items.

what is it that i am doing wrong here?

[753 byte] By [Daniel_laksjdhfg] at [2007-12-24]

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# 1

From the solution explorer double click on the "My Project" icon...this will open the project configuration window.....click on the compile tab and at the top of that screen you can change the configuration from debug to release

HTH

DMan1 at 2007-8-31 >

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# 2

my compile tab does not contain any list box with "debug" or "release" as options. i have:

build output path

advanced compile options

option explicit/strict/compare

checkboxes about warnings and XML docs

nothing about configuration. the advanced compile options also does not have anything about configurations.

any other ideas?

Daniel_laksjdhfg at 2007-8-31 >

# 3

ok,found a solution for myself! you must have the "show advanced build configurations" checkbox set in order to handle release vs debug configurations. go to "tools" -> "options" menu, then click on "Projects and Solutions" -> "General" in the tree, then check or uncheck "show advanced build configurations". what a waste of time that was to figure out, thanks microsoft!

Daniel_laksjdhfg at 2007-8-31 >

# 4

I couldn't agree more. I googled this topic for about 2 hours and couldn't find it in the documentation either.

Thanks Daniel

Regards

Julie

JulieBickford at 2007-8-31 >

# 5

Thanks Daniel. I too spent hours looking for this option. It's almost embarrassing. In any case, thanks for finding it.

billperlman at 2007-8-31 >

# 6

We apologize for the confusion. I have notified the team of the fact that the help pages are incorrect and need to be updated.