Huge application size?

[Legjendat]

Hi guys, I'm having a strange problem that never occurred to me before. I clicked the pause button in my visual studio a couple of days ago and it threw some warning or error, I don't remember what it was, or what I clicked. Now there are a bunch of folders ending with PDB in my project, and my program's size got 4-5MB bigger. Anyone has any ideas what this is?

[Shaggy Hiker]

What you have is a bunch of Program Database Files as you see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.71).aspx

I'm not sure why you got that particular set, though, as they are not normally included in project folders. The ones you got are for dlls that come with VS. They shouldn't be necessary in your project folder.

[jmcilhinney]

What is in those folders?

[Legjendat]

What is in those folders?

A bunch of pdb files of size varying from some KBs to some MBs. Anyway, my problem was something else not related to these files and I fixed it now. The pdb files are still there, I can't get rid of them, but I fixed the huge file size at least.

Even though I would have to say there is something wrong with the project, since I'm getting an error when trying to do a sum of a string and a double, and it doesn't show me where the error happens, saying some pdb is missing which makes my debugging incomplete.