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Can a Debug Build do anything that the Release build cant? Like can it automatically generate error logs or other nifty things like that in a public "debug" release? I know vb.net has alot more debugging power than vb6 and I would like to take advantage of it...
When you compile to debug mode then it creates those .pdb files that enable you to debug the running exe and catch events. If you compile to release mode then you can't really use the IDE to debug or at least it wont stop at your breakpoints and such.
Having said that there are still some cool debugging tools or features that are available whether you compile to debug or release mode.
I'm not sure what you need or are looking for but check out 'Configuring Trace Switches' in the help files. Else see 'Trace and Debug Settings Schema' and those are just things you can add/remove via a config file. Using reflection in the app itself can find out a ton of things.
There is this too:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=212776