Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Debug Output folder

152Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

Figure 6-3 The Debug Output folder

should not deploy them with your application; they would just take up extra space and not serve a purpose. You normally want vshost files in place when debugging in VS. There are various debugger settings you can configure in VS that affect your session and modify the vshost configuration files. Open the properties page and click the Debug tab, shown in Figure 6-4.

In Figure 6-4, you can see that the Configuration is set to Debug and the Platform is set to x86. The Platform target can be Any CPU, x86, x64, or Itanium, depending on the CPU you are building the application on. The compiler will perform optimizations for the CPU type you select. If you’re running VS on a 64-bit operating system, your Active solution platform may show as Active (Any CPU).

The Start Action section of the Debug tab determines how the debugging session begins. Start Project is the default, Start External Program allows you to attach your VS debugging session to an already-running application, and Start Browser With URL lets you debug a