vshost.exe still running after uncheck Enable the Visual Studio hosting process in VS2015

Question

I have a problem with the vshost.exe on running my test cases using a standalone test runner. vshost.exe is still running after I've done the following:

1. Clear my bin/Debug folder of the project.
2. Uncheck the "Enable the Visual Studio hosting process".
3. Restart Visual Studio.
4. Build the project.
5. Run test runner.

What else do I miss to kill the vshost.exe. Your response is truly appreciated.

Answer 1

From comment56995746, my guesses are you either

• didn't save the settings, or
• didn't rebuild, rather than build, the project
  • that's because the compiled bits actually reside in obj folder (and then some are copied into bin) which you didn't clean. Rebuild makes VS disregard them.