Visual Studio Express 2012 not building exe in Release folder

Question

I have compiled a simple \'Hello World\' program. The program is successfully compiled without any errors. I can see a working executable in bin folder. But the Release folder o

Answer 1

Make sure you're building the release version, not the debug version. By default, VS will build a Debug build, which will go into the bin\Debug folders.

For details, see How to: Set Debug and Release Configurations.