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?
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*.*"=""