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What does this icon mean?

I've been trying to work out what this little stop sign icon attached to the file d3dx9d.lib in the image means: http://members.gamedev.net/mattnewport/vs2005-icon.png. Can anyone enlighten me Is there somewhere that explains all the icons in the MSDN docs I spent a while looking around and all I could find is docs for the source control icons.

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What does this icon mean?

  • Hussain Saffar

    Umm, what happens to the icon when you do that...

  • Dave Le

    There's nothing obvious about the properties page that explains what the icon means. The relative path in the properties pane (the file properties rather than the properties you get when you right click in solution explorer) lists a relative path that appears to be correct - the file above has the same relative path and both files exist in that directory but the file above doesn't have the little stop sign.

  • spelger

    Right-click this file and open Properties. Maybe Visual Studio cannot find it.

  • Quimbo

    If I right click on it I get an 'Exclude From Project' menu option but no 'Include In Project' option.

  • shahafin

    It means that file is excluded from build. Right click - Properties - first line on the right side of the dialog "Exclude from Build". If it is set to Yes, then you see that icon.

    Nikola



  • Martin Rajotte

    Ah, ok, that seems to be it, thanks. If I change 'Exclude From Build' to 'No' the icon goes away.

  • ClemensT

    It means the library is not included in the project. Right-click it and choose "Include in project" to turn it back to normal.

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