<compilation debug="XXX in web config, what scenarios does it affect?

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Published on 2010-04-01T09:54:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 10:03 UTC
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If I've built my application in release mode, and precompiled the aspxs, what does

<compilation debug="true" />

do in the Web.config?

Do I still need to set this to false for production code?

Under what circumstances does this have any affect?

Thanks

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