Microsoft KB Archive/158033

= The browse information is not available when you try to browse a symbol inside Visual C++ =

Article ID: 158033

Article Last Modified on 1/11/2006

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 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition
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 * Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Professional Edition
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 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q158033



SYMPTOMS
When your project is loaded and you try to browse a symbol inside the Visual C++ IDE, you receive the following error message:

No Browse Information is available

or, in earlier versions of Visual C++:

Browse information is not available for this project



CAUSE
The project does not have the right settings switched on to create a browser (BSC) file.



RESOLUTION
In Visual C++ .NET, you must click to select a single project option to create the BSC file:
 * 1) In the Solution Explorer window, right-click the project in question (note that solutions can contain more than one project), and then click Properties.
 * 2) In the Property Pages dialog box, click to select the General section.
 * 3) Locate the Build Browser Information property in the General section, and then change the setting from No to Yes.
 * 4) Rebuild your project to create the BSC file.

Note For more information about how to build a .bsc file in Visual C++ 2005, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1cf33ehd(en-US,VS.80).aspx

In earlier versions of Visual C++, you must click to select two check boxes in the build settings:
 * 1) On the main menu, select Build/Settings.
 * 2) Select the C/C++ tab. Select the Generate browse info box. This tells the compiler to generate an intermediate SBR file for each source file.
 * 3) Select the Browse Info tab. Select the Build browse info file box. This invokes the BSCMAKE utility when a project is built to generate a BSC file.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: browser

Keywords: kbide kbprb KB158033

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