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Decrease time to attach & load symbols


Generally speaking, what are your recommendations on this? Currently takes close to 10 minutes for me to attach to a locally running IIS process hosting SharePoint 2007.


Solution

  • Make sure your symbol path includes a local cache directory so that it doesn't download symbols from Microsoft's public symbol server every time you attach.

    Also, I haven't tried this with Visual Studio, but you may also be able to set up an exclusion list identifying modules for which you don't have symbols.