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If you're running Whidbey, you may have noticed that when you debug a Windows app that you see two entries in your Task Manager. One for the application, and one for something called VSHOST (it'll show up as [appname].vshost.exe).

VSHOST is a wrapper around your app when running under the Whidbey IDE. You'll also notice that VSHOST and several other files will be placed in your BIN folder as well. These files should not be deployed, and in Beta 2, Whidbey should give you an option to eliminate them completely from a build to give you a production deployable app. Dave Templin has a great post about VSHOST over on his VB.NET blog.