[opendomain]

It may be that they are speeding it up by keeping the .net runtime resident in memory. They used to do this with Visual Basic runtime

I ran norton utilities on my pc yesterday and noticed a new service - it was .net runtime. Please note that I am a developer so this may be just to help launch the tools.

[smileybarry]

That’s probably just a non-Visual Studio version of what VS already does with reusing .NET-hosting processes when you run an app in debug mode.