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Finally, you may be asking yourself “What is the Visual Studio Hosting Process (aka VSHost), and what happens if I turn it off?” And this is a good question.

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Finally, you may be asking yourself “What is the Visual Studio Hosting Process (aka VSHost), and what happens if I turn it off?” And this is a good question.

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For the most part, disabling VSHost won’t have any major impacts, but it will disable two features that you may be using. First, you will not be able to do “Debug In Zone”, which allows you to debug a process in the context of a security zone such as “Internet” or “Intranet”. That won’t work without VSHost. Second, Design Time Expression Evaluation for class libraries will also not work. What that means, for example, is that if you are developing a Class Library, you won’t be able to execute code from it in the Immediate Window while under the debugger. In general, I recommend re-enabling VSHost (undo step 2 above) when you are finished with your debugging.

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