Servers (Visual Studio SDK)
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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In the debugger architecture, a server:
Is a container of ports and port suppliers and communicates ports and port suppliers to the session debug manager (SDM) and debug engines.
Can identify itself by name, and enumerate its ports and port suppliers.
Is represented by an IDebugCoreServer2 interface, which is only implemented by Visual Studio (one instance of a server for each instance of Visual Studio running).