Thanks Rick.

>Nope that's the way it is. You definitely want to switch that flag on your live server as it will reduce overhead considerably as it's not mapping source code to the running code in any way. The compilere won't touch web.config nor should it. Think about it <g> - it's doing it on the local machine.
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>FWIW, I have some generic helper classes that let me set these sort of things externally through the Web application by directly reading and writing web.config so it's easily changed without having to edit the file on the server.
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>>I am a bit confused about building a release version of my ASP.NET application and deploying it.
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>>On the standard toolbar, there is a dropdown list for Solution Configurations. I changed this from Debug to Release, then did a Rebuild. I am assuming this is what I should do for a release. However, in web.config, the compilation option debug is still set to "true". Am I doing things correctly?