When creating a Monodevelop project, or when opening a typical Visual Studio project, there are 2 build configurations: "Debug" and "Release".
The default is "Debug", and building from the Build menu only runs the Debug build.
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?
(The "Configuration" dropdowns in the project and solution settings actually act as tabs; they don't change the default.) I searched for "build configuration" in the Monodevelop documentation, but nothing relevant came up.