Prevent visual studio creating browse info (.ncb) files

Question

Is there a way to prevent VS2008 creating browse info file files for C++ projects. I rarely use the class browser and it isn't worth the time it takes to recreate it after every build, especially since it runs even if the build failed. EDIT - it's also needed for go to declaration/definition

Accepted Answer

There is a registry key for this as well: `[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Languages\Language Services\C/C++]`

Intellisense ON

```
"IntellisenseOptions"=dword:00000000
```

Intellisense OFF

```
"IntellisenseOptions"=dword:00000007
```

Intellisense ON - NO Background UPDATE

```
"IntellisenseOptions"=dword:00000005
```

More flags are available and you can Control Intellisense through Macros as well.

```
ISENSE_NORMAL = 0       'normal (Intellisense On)
ISENSE_NOBG = &H1       'no bg parsing (Intellisense Updating Off - although NCB file will be opened r/w and repersisted at shutdown)
ISENSE_NOQUERY = &H2    'no queries (don't run any ISense queries)
ISENSE_NCBRO = &H4      'no saving of NCB (must be set before opening NCB, doesn't affect updating or queries, just persisting of NCB)
ISENSE_OFF = &H7       
```

Prevent visual studio creating browse info (.ncb) files

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