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I am using Visual Studio 2008. I don't need to debug some DLLs in my project, so can I disable symbol loading when debugging a Visual C++ program? Does it help to make startup time faster when debugging?
The symbols are all local, so I don't have those slow loading problem, just want to make debugging faster and faster.
For example I am using Qt libraries, when I hit "Starting Debugging", the Output window shows that the symbols for Qt libraries are loaded. If VS can stop loading those symbols, the debugging startup time should be faster. Of course, I still want VS to load symbol for my executable.
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You may have a symbol server or symbol path set in your symbol settings (Tools->Options->Debugging->Symbols) that is being queried every time a dll is loaded. You can disable, or delete any such paths.
To end a debugging session in Microsoft Visual Studio, from the Debug menu, choose Stop Debugging.
Visual Studio's default behaviorVisual Studio will try to load symbols for all binaries (referred to as “modules”) in the process when the module is loaded (and for all modules already loaded when attaching to a process). The exception to this is when you are debugging managed (.
Just found out that Visual Studio 2010 actually do what I want.
To load only the symbol for your executable file, without loading other symbols (eg: DLLs):
Also found out that Visual Studio 2010 seems to perform better than Visual Studio 2008 when debugging. At least the IDE layout switches back faster when the debugging is stopped.
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