Currently, use llblgen to generate a seperate project for the dal layer. I then refrence this dal in my actual developement project. Currently I generate the dal project in debug mode. Should I generate it as a release mode and use it in my project that way. Just curious.

I'd keep it in a separate solution. For your code's solution it doesn't matter what you reference, debug or release, as long as you distribute it with the release version of your generated code

When you keep it in a separate solution, you keep your own solution more compact, which makes life inside visual studio a bit better

yeap, I meant to say solution. Thanks for the info.