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Figure 1-19: The Configuration Manager lets you manage project builds.
Release configurations use more optimizations than Debug configurations, so they provide smaller,
faster executable programs. They do not include support for debugging, however, so you cannot debug
a program compiled for release.
In the “Active solution configuration” drop-down, select the <New...> entry to create a new configura-
tion. When you select this entry, Visual Studio displays the New Solution Configuration dialog shown in
Figure 1-20. Enter the name you want to give the configuration, select the existing configuration from
which it should copy default values, and click OK.
Figure 1-20: The New Solution Configuration dialog
lets you create new configurations.
The “Active solution configuration” drop-down also contains an item labeled <Edit...>. If you select this
entry, Visual Studio displays a dialog where you can rename or remove configurations.
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