Question

As the title asks, what’s the difference between “Stop Debugging” and “Terminate All” in Visual Studio (I know those options are available in 2008, but not sure if it’s called the same or something different in 2005 or 2010) ?

Answer 1

I think Terminate All will kill all attached processes in Visual Studio while the former just stops debugging but leaves the processes running.

Update: A better answer from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/406kfbs1.aspx

Stop Debugging terminates the process you are debugging if the
program was launched from Visual
Studio. If you attached to the
process, instead of launching it from
Visual Studio, the process continues
running. If you want to terminate
attached processes, you can terminate
a single process from the Processes
window or terminate all attached
process with the Terminate All
command.