Disabling Visual Studio hosting process on Visual Studio Community 2017

Question

I am trying to disable output of a vshost.exe file to my release folder. There is a similar question here and here. This Microsoft doc instruction for 2015, and followed the 2017 rc link and found this

They all mention the Enable the Visual Studio hosting process checkbox on the properties Debug tab. But this option does not appear in my screen.

I have tried this on the properties pages for Console Application and windows Application project output types.

Is this feature supported in VS Community 2017 or is there another way to achieve he same result?

Answer 1

This feature seems to be removed in VS 2017. According to this thread and also this one. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything from official sources.

So my guess is that maybe you had these files there generated by previous versions (VS2015?). Try deleting all files from bin and obj directories and do a build to see if these files are generated again.

Hope this helps!