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I wouldn't say that VS loads "Internet Explorer", that's a bit of an exaggeration. iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer, mshtml.dll holds the DOM implementation it
by prayerslayer 12y ago
I wouldn't say that VS loads "Internet Explorer", that's a bit of an exaggeration. iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer, mshtml.dll holds the DOM implementation it's using [1,2]. Now that's still close to a web browser, but one may also use Trident to work e.g. with generic XML documents. I don't know if VS does that and whether this is a good idea or not though.
[1] N. Zakas: High Performance Javascript, p. 35
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)
- pjc50 12y agoHe does claim that it creates a window, even if that's a conceptual one rather than a physical one. Hence the lock contention in the desktop window manager.