Questions tagged [browse-information]

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Visual C++ browse information

I am trying to figure out what the browse information (.sbr files) is used for but find only references how to create it. So what is it for? Thanks Dima
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Why would Browse Information in Visual Studio 2008 stop being updated?

I'm working on a fairly big (I think - is 32 projects big?) multi-project 'solution' in Visual Studio 2008. Because it's a legacy system, the code is mainly C , although I don't think that's germane to my question. Recently (but I'm not sure…
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Getting a List of Symbols Used by My VC++ Code

I am building a tool that process my VC++ source codes. For this, I need to obtain a list of symbols including local variable names and their types used by my codes. I know Visual C++ 2010 already provides a .bsc file that allows the object…
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Weird BSCMAKE build error that I cannot diagnose. Turning off browse info is not an option

I have a solution with about 10 C++ projects in Visual Studio 2017. A few of them make use a post-build tool that requires me to build browse information. One of them keeps failing on the BSCMAKE step virtually every time I make a code change with…
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