In the context of DevStudio or other debuggers, symbols are used to
make debugging easier. They tell the debugger that 'function xyz()
takes 2 values, and starts at address 0xDEADBEEF', etc. If you're
debugging your code, they're very useful. If the symbols are for
things that aren't your code, you can usually ignore that. Tip: when
it says symbols aren't loaded, it says which .dll/.exe symbols aren't
loaded for. Odds are, you should know what dll/exe you're creating, so
the rest should be Windows or other 3rd party libs. Go to
http://www.google.com/ and search for the dll/exe name to confirm
that.

Nathan Mates

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