title: How do you build the "release" configuration in Monodevelop?
body: <p>When creating a Monodevelop project, or when opening a typical Visual Studio project, there are 2 build configurations: "Debug" and "Release".</p>
  
  <p>The default is "Debug", and building from the Build menu only runs the Debug build.</p>
  
  <p>This should be a trivial task, but I see no option to build a different build configuration (in the menus or in the project or solution settings, short of outright deleting the "Debug" configuration). How can I build the "release" configuration?</p>
  
  <p>(The "Configuration" dropdowns in the project and solution settings actually act as tabs; they don't change the default.) I <a href="http://monodevelop.com/Special%3aSearch?search=%22build+configuration%22&amp;type=fulltext" rel="nofollow">searched for "build configuration" in the Monodevelop documentation</a>, but nothing relevant came up.</p>