Visual Studio loading symbols


I’ve been working on a ColdFusion project for a while now, and Visual Studio started to behave strangely for me.

I observed that when I started debugging, it built the project, started the deploy, and when the deploy was finished – it started to load symbols for my project.

However, this is painfully slow, and I don’t know why it started to perform this step.

Have I done anything to cause this behaviour? Is the symbol loading step necessary? How can I disable it?

In the Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> Symbols dialog there is no symbol file (.pdb) location added. I pointed my project’s debug directory to the field below, and I checked the "Search the above directory only when symbols are …." checkbox. How should I set up this dialog to turn off symbol loading?

I looked in the Modules window which symbols are loaded, but it says nothing to me. What could be the problem?

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