Hi,
Check the compilation element in the web.config file, i.e.:<compilation
debug="false">.
Because you no longer need to compile a web-project (which for VS2005, are
merely files in a directory), the way you tell the runtime how to compile
the files is through the Web.config file. (which is actually a very cool
feature :-)

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Best regards,
Abel Eduardo Pereira
> So VS 2005 has changed the way they compile Web services (actually web
> projects). Now they no longer have this option of release mode for Web
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> publish option too) for all the references assemblies that this webservice
> uses. Any ideas/suggestions will be hugely appreciated