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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:14:38+00:00

When using DefaultTemplate from Visual Sturdio 2012 (and TFS 2012 server), the PDB files

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When using DefaultTemplate from Visual Sturdio 2012 (and TFS 2012 server), the PDB files are included in build directory. I do not want them.

Is there a way not to generate those files during build process?

Or

How can I delete those files?

I found this thread about deletion but seems a bit strange (no delete activity?)
There also is this answer but does not involve XAML template.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The build server by default does whatever the Solution (sln) tells it to. That by default is to do a “Debug” build and that created the PDB’s. You can tell the Build to do a “Release” build that will not by default create any PDB’s…

    Adding a Build Configuration
    Figure: Adding a Build Configuration

    I would however recommend against it as the PDB’s contain information that you need even in production systems. Consider for a moment that you have a DLL in production and the customer is encountering a problem. You get them to create an InteliTrace log so that you can debug it locally (or they let you debug on their environment) and suddenly you are trying to debug without Visual Studio understanding the relationship between the Executable and the Source Code. So no debug…

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