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Do you have to deploy the .pdb file with compiling under release?

April 26, 2017compiling deploy file release

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Do you have to deploy the .pdb file with compiling under release?

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No you do not need to deploy them. As to why they are even built in release. A PDB file really has a couple of uses but the primary ones (at least for me) are • Debugging • Profiling Both of these tasks are validly done on release binaries which is why release builds include a PDB. In fact, when debugging Watson dumps it’s 100% of the time against a release build.