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Up until now,

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we've been executing the code from
within the IDE using the debugger.

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Eventually, you want to build your
application and publish it somewhere,

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distribute it, or in the very least,
run it without using Visual Studio.

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When I click the Start button here,

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Visual Studio will first build
the solution before running the program.

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When it builds the solution,
all of the files needed to run the program

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are copied into a special folder inside
the project directory called bin.

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Bin is short for binary, so you might
hear people call this the bin directory.

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The point is, this is where you
go to find your application.

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You can run it from the bin directory,
move it to another directory, or even

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another computer so long as that computer
has the same version of .NET and MONO.

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By default, Visual Studio projects come
preconfigured with two types of builds,

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Debug and Release.

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These are called build configurations.

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The Debug build configuration
does things like

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include information that the debugger and
profilers need.

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The Release build configuration,
among other things,

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applies compile time optimizations
to make the code run faster.

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You can switch between build
configurations here in this drop-down.

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Switching to Release build
disables the debugger.

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So, if we attempt to run the debugger
with this set to release,

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we'll see this message.

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We're still able to continue
running the code, but

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none of the break points will be hit.

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You can build the code without running the
debugger by clicking on build solution in

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the build menu.

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Now let's take a look at what it did.

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The easiest way to get to the bin
directory is to right click on the project

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in Solution Explorer and
click on Open Folder in File Explorer.

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Here we see the bin directory.

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In here, we find two directories.

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Each named for a build configuration.

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For this c sharp console app,

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both directories contain
the same types of files.

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Here we see the file
with the .exe extension.

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That's our executable file
which we can copy around.

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These other files here
are not required for

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the program to run, most of them
are only used by Visual Studio.