The Visual Studio Remote Debugger, whose main executable is MSVSMON.EXE , is a lightweight application you run on the remote computer (the target of your debugging). It acts as a bridge, allowing the full instance of Visual Studio on your local development machine to connect, attach to running processes, and debug code as if it were running locally. You can use it to set breakpoints, inspect variables, step through code, and analyze call stacks, just as you would during local development.
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On your development machine:
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The remote machine does not need Visual Studio 2022 installed. The Visual Studio Remote Debugger, whose main executable