Visual Studio 2010 takes too long loading symbols, symbol file location cannot be removed

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Myster picture Myster · Sep 19, 2010 · Viewed 19.9k times · Source

Visual Studio takes a lot of extra time loading symbols for external dlls which I'd rather not load. I have fiddled with my symbol settings in VS2008 and these settings seem to be affecting VS2010

How do I stop it loading 3rd party symbols?
I've tried:

  • devenv /resetuserdata
  • Tools > Options > Debugging > Symbols (I can't remove or uncheck the pdb file location of: "Environment Variable: _NT_SYMBOL_PATH")
  • I've cleared the above location like so: set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=
    actually this made a huge difference (it was previously SRVc:\symbolshttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols)
  • I've deleted everything from: %localappdata%\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\

The next thing would be a VS re-install, failing that an OS re-install, but if it saves me 14 seconds every time I press debug it would be worth it.

Answer

Neil picture Neil · Feb 22, 2012

Try Debug -> Delete All Breakpoints

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