Missing "Release" configuration option in Visual Studio 2005

Here is a post that describes why there's no "Release" configuration in Visual Studio 2005 for web projects (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0 projects). Apparently Microsoft did away with this VS.NET 2003 style of web development and now you decide the build configuration by making the setting in the web.config i.e.



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