Question

I’m using the Microsoft Symbol Server with Visual Studio 2008 and it’s working pretty well. Unfortunately, when the public symbol server doesn’t contain the symbols, it takes a while to timeout, and Visual Studio attempts to reload the same missing symbols every time that I start my project for debugging.

Is there any way that I can get (or trick) Visual Studio into remembering the “misses” and not to bother again for a while?

Answer 1

See this post
But it seems you can also control symbols loading with symsrv.ini

(I guess the ini file should go under …\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE folder)

Update: Just found this link.
Using the registry is better than the ini file approach.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Symbol Server\Exclusions]
"notepad.pdb"=""
"ora*.*"=""