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12 May 2012

What is vshost.exe ?

Right next to Visual Studio build of a CLR executable, we notice another executable ending with .vshost.exe


vshost.exe is a hosting process introduced by Visual Studio, for following benefits

  • helps in creating App domain and associating debugger to that. Normally this is a slow process, however vshost.exe makes this noticeably fast.
  • initializes the debugger for partial trust debugging
  • supports intermediate window for design time expression evaluation.
Still don't wish to have *.vshost.exe next your binary, then go to project properties -> Debug
And un-check the option.

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