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Question

difference between debug and trace

prathi Atluri · Answer

I'm not sure of the exact difference s but I do know what an debug statements are not included in the Release build so they can be put in and left in without them affecting the Release. Trace statements are included in both  Debug  and Release builds but u can refer wt exactly is going here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa984620(VS.71).aspx

Alan · Answer

As the functionality of the Debug and Trace classes is much the same the difference lies in when they are used rather than what they do. Basically 'Debug' only looks for problems when a program is in debug mode and 'Trace' continues to monitor a program's health after deployment (i.e. in release mode). Including debug code will not increase the size of the deployed program because the compiler will simply ignore it. However including trace code will increase the size of the deployed program and you therefore need to weigh this extra size and possible performance penalty against the benefits of having trace functionality. If the extra costs are not acceptable then disable trace and just use debug. In VS 2005 the DEBUG compiler directive is enabled by default in debug mode and the TRACE compiler directive is enabled by default in both debug and release modes.