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Did you know… You can cache symbols locally to disk? - #301

And here we go… beyond the #300 mark…

Under Tools – Options – Debugging – Symbols, there’s this checkbox

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Whenever I use a symbol server, meaning that I’m loading symbols from somewhere that isn’t on my machine, like a UNC share, I do two things:

  1. Uncheck load symbols when this dialog is closed – i prefer to wait until the moment i need to load symbols
  2. I specify a cache location on disk to copy the symbol files to.

You never know when you won’t have access to the symbol server, so i prefer to use this option so  i can always keep going, just in case. i’m curious if anyone has a reason why not to use it.

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  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2008
    Go Sara Go! (woohoo! First I think!)

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2008
    Did YOU know, every time VS2008 (and SP1) tries to download the source files, the server responds with a HTTP 503 Application Unavailable error?

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2008
    Can I publish your tips on my WEB site http://www.hackishcode.com

  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2008
    My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Busy week this week so this is a quick all at once version. Greg Duncan posted a link to release announcement for XamlPadX 4.0 . Sasha

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2009
    本篇包括tip301-tip310http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-30.html#301、缓存...