Detecting if a program was run by Visual Studio, as opposed to run from Windows Explorer

Question

Is there a way to detect if your program was loaded through Visual Studio vs. whether it was started as a standalone executable?

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Answer 1

I don't do .net development, but in java I have done this by passing a flag into the startup options of the application. So you could pass a debug flag into the app from the IDE, and then check for that, when the app is run as an executable the flag would not be present. I would be surprised if .net didn't have something similar.