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I have Visual Studio 2005 set up to use Microsoft's symbol servers. I also have UltraMon installed, which injects a hook DLL into every process. Whenever I start debugging my MFC application, Visual Studio says:
"Loading symbols for C:\Program Files\UltraMon\RTSUltraMonHookX32.dll..." for anything from the blink of an eye to several tens of seconds. It's never going to find those symbols... Can I tell it not to bother looking?
(I tried creating an empty RTSUltraMonHookX32.pdb file, but Visual Studio sees that it's not good and carries on looking.)
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You can't do this in a very fine grained fashion but you can disable automatic symbol loading and then manually choose the symbols to load via the Modules window (Debug -> Windows -> Modules). Show activity on this post. Show activity on this post.
In Visual Studio, open Tools > Options > Debugging > Symbols (or Debug > Options > Symbols).
A program database file (extension . pdb) is a binary file that contains type and symbolic debugging information gathered over the course of compiling and linking the project. A PDB file is created when you compile a C/C++ program with /ZI or /Zi or a Visual Basic, Visual C#, or JScript program with the /debug option.
A PDB file is an auxiliary file produced by a compiler to provide other tools, especially debuggers, information about what is in the main executable file and how it was produced. For example, a debugger reads a PDB to map foo. cs line 12 to the right executable location so that it can set a breakpoint.
You can't do this in a very fine grained fashion but you can disable automatic symbol loading and then manually choose the symbols to load via the Modules window (Debug -> Windows -> Modules).
To Disable Automatic Symbol loading
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Also check that you have no "_NT_SYMBOL_PATH" environment variable. If you have this var symbols will load regardless of VS settings.
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