vshost文件的目的是什么？

Question

在Visual Studio下，我发现控制台程序实际上是*** vshost.exe，我想知道此文件的用途吗？

Answer 1

The hosting process is a feature in Visual Studio 2005 that improves debugging performance, enables partial trust debugging, and enables design time expression evaluation. The hosting process files contain vshost in the file name and are placed in the output folder of your project.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185331(VS.80).aspx

Answer 2

Those are used when the application is started from within Visual Studio. It's for the interaction with the IDE, it's not needed when you run the application on it's own.