Visual Studio debugging painfully slow when loading symbols

Question

I have an issue which is practically similar to Visual Studio debugging/loading very slow but I haven\'t managed to find a solution to such a problem.

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Answer 1

In my case, I had a file open in VS that was not part of my current solution (it happened to be an XML file which I had marked with breakpoints for quick-reference). When I removed those particular breakpoints, the issue resolved.