How to make application release build with Visual Studio 2017?

If you want to make a final release build with your application in Visual Studio 2017, you can follow this tutorial:

1. Click "Build > Clean Solution" menu. You see debugging files removed.

2. Change the build configuration from Debug to Release in the menu area.

3. Click "Build > Build Solution" menu. You see project build messages showing up in the output box below the source code.

1>------ Build started: Project: Hello-Project, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
1>stdafx.cpp
1>Hello-Project.cpp
1>Generating code
1>All 10 functions were compiled because no usable IPDB/IOBJ from previous compilation was found.
1>Finished generating code
1>Hello-Project.vcxproj -> 
   C:\fyicenter\vc2017\Projects\Hello-Solution\Release\Hello-Project.exe
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

4. Go to a command console and run:

>C:\fyicenter\vc2017\Projects\Hello-Solution\Release\Hello-Project.exe
Hello World!

The picture below shows you how to make release build for your application in Visual Studio:

⇒ Using Visual Studio Command Prompt

⇐ Build Console Application with Visual Studio 2017

⇑ First C++ Program in Visual Studio 2017

⇑⇑ Visual Studio Tutorials