Do I need the bin\debug\appName.vshost.exe and appName.vshost.manifest in my SVN code repository?

I am building an application which is based on a sample application, written in C# on .NET 2, and is built on VS2008. This application is mostly a wrapper for a COM application. However I compile it in .NET 3.5.

The sample application came with the following files in it's bin\debug:

• appName.vshost.exe
• appName.vshost.exe.manifest

I noticed that I can delete the files and VS re-builds vshost.exe, and the vshost.manifest file appears with modification date the same as the deleted file as if VS has copied in from somewhere.

My question is, should 开发者_运维技巧I put this files in my SVN code repository?

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Those two files you list implement the Visual Studio "hosting process". It is a hosted version of the CLR, designed to improve the debugging experience. It takes care of some security issues, the most visible side-effect is that it redirects output written with Console.WriteLine() in a GUI app to the Output window.

These files are not part of your project and do not get deleted when you use Build + Clean. In fact, you cannot delete the .exe file, it is always running while you've got the project opened in Visual Studio. You can disable the hosting process feature with Project + Properties, Debug, scroll down, "Enable the Visual Studio Hosting process" tick. There's no compelling reason to do so.

There's no need to check these in, Visual Studio re-generates them when you check-in a project and load it in VS. In general, you never need to check anything in from the bin subdirectory, its content is always re-created by building your project.

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Everything in the debug (or release) folder is generated. Everything that's generated shouldn't be checked in.

When in doubt, just make a fresh checkout to some other folder (or even machine), and try to build from that. If something is missing, this will find it.

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I do not think you should. They are for VS use only.

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Here are the files I ignore when creating C# projects. You really only want to store the source code in the repository and not the outputs. Similarly you probably do not want to store the user based information that goes along with VS solutions.

• *.csproj.user
• *.suo
• bin (folder)
• obj (folder)