Release Build contains extra files, do I need these?

.net, c#, windows

Solution

You do (probably) need

- myApp.exe.config

That contains configuration settings for your executable.

You don't need the others.

- myApp.pdb

Contains debug symbols

- myApp.vshost.*

Used by Visual Studio when debugging (vshost means Visual Studio Host).

Problem

I built my program with Visual Studio 2012 Express, bin/release/ contains some other files as well as the exe. Do I need to distribute these files? - myApp.exe.config - myApp.pdb - myApp.vshost.exe - myApp.vshost.exe.config - myApp.vshost.exe.manifest

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