Tag: Visual Studio

Common NuGet Package Manager Console Commands You Should Know

Within Visual Studio there is a console window that many know little about. I myself have finally started researching ways to improve my productivity via this console window, the Package Manager Console. In doing my research and using some of these commands on a daily or weekly basis, I figured I’d jot these down for my own notes, and anybody...

Attaching a Debugger to a Process in Visual Studio 2010

Ever have one of your applications running out of visual studio, but need to debug a method? An awesome feature you can utilize, if you are not using the express version of Visual Studio, is attaching the debugger in Visual Studio to a process currently running on your computer. Step 1 : Open up the Attach to Process option. Step...

What is MyApp.vshost.exe, and why Can’t I Kill It?

The visual studio hosting process a.k.a [YourAppName].vshost.exe in brief is the debugging information that Visual Studio creates for between runs to help improve debugging performance and other various functions. I had first worked with these files when I had to clean out my bin folder and noticed these files would not delete and were still in use. I had found...

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