Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvement Suggestion

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All,

Rather than ask a question, I am using this forum to pass on something I has considerable improved my user experience.

I hope that is appropriate for this forum as otherwise I am not sure where to post it short of starting my own blog.

Visual Studio 2017 speed when debugging has been very slow and have been looking for what seems like forever for a solution.

Today I found an article that suggested I use a local directory to cache symbols.

This is set at Debug > Options > Debugging > Symbols.

When I first looked at my setting, the default was used.

I altered mine to point to a folder on my c drive and suddenly the debugging world is a better place.

The difference for me has been huge.

I hope someone else finds it benefits them too

For the record the article was

Make Debugging Faster with Visual Studio | Azure DevOps Blog

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