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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:15:44+00:00

I am working on a project with Visual Studio 2008. There is a drop

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I am working on a project with Visual Studio 2008.

  1. There is a drop down that you can choose Debug / Release.
  2. There is also a Start Without Debugging (CTRL + F5) option.

What happens if I choose Debug mode but start without debugging? Isn’t it a conflict?

What is the relation between these two menus?

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  1. Editorial Team

    These features are completely orthogonal.

    The choice of build does(By default, you can change these settings separately and create new build targets):

    • The debug build generates debug informations, has IL optimizations disabled and the DEBUG conditional symbol defined
    • The release build doesn’t generate debug informations, has IL optimizations enabled and the DEBUG symbol is not defined

    Run vs Run without Debugger determines if the debugger gets attached on the started process. By default starting with debugger also disables JIT optimizations.

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