>When a VB.NET desktop application is having this situation:
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>"An unhandled win32 exception error occured in Application.exe [idhere]."
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>Is the idhere representing the process id? If yes, and if the application is still showing on the desktop with that crash, is it normal this process id no longer appears in the Task Manager?

Yes I believe that is the process ID - and you won't see it on the task manager because the process has already terminated due to the error....or at least I think that would be the case. ...perhaps you might still see it if the user hasn't acknowledged the error yet.