Visual Studio 2008 - Status Icon Glossary Icon?

Question

I looked through the help files for Visual Studio and could not find information about the meaning of some of the icons in the status bar at the bottom of the main window of the development environment.

Does anyone know the link?

In particular, there is an icon that shows a pair of binoculars above an animated page with scrolling boxes.

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Answer 1

This will be your Find Files animation.

You can see it at the bottom of the image:

alt text http://msmvps.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/peterritchie/lean-VS2k8.JPG

The only other icons I saw there are Build and Save.

Answer 2

At the bottom of this MSDN article, you can find a table with predefined VS status status animations:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsstatusbar.animation.aspx

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0 Standard animation icon

1 Printing Animation

2 Animation when saving files

3 Animation when deploying a solution

4 Animation when synchronizing files over the network

5 Animation in building a solution

6 Search Animation

Answer 3

AFAIK are the only icons that appear there when you build a project.

Answer 4

You mean "List of errors"

Errors - red circle with white X
Warnings - Yellow triangle with black!
Information - White circle with blue i

Errors, stop compiling the code.
Warnings, there may be issues that can be ignored (but probably shouldn't)
Info, informs you