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

Instead of tracking by process tree, I would add a configuration flag that enables the reporting feature. The flag can always default to "true" unless you are in your DEV environment then you set it to "false".