I've been using a library in my code base for a while now, and I wanted to debug right into the library level. To do that, I downloaded the source code and included the project as an existing proje...

I see lots of questions and answers for this issue in Visual Studio, but no answers for VS Code. It's really annoying to see about a hundred of these messages in between my WriteLines. Is there a ...

We are in the process of switching Visual C++ projects to the vc141 toolchain (VS 2017). We have encountered a problem where Visual Studio is unable to use a .pdb file whose source .obj files don't...

Just downloaded Visual Studio Professional for Mac and I cannot seem to build anything as I always get the same error: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.0/lib/mono/xbuild/14.0/bin/Mi...

Why does Visual Studio 2005 generate the .pdb files when compiling in release? I won't be debugging a release build, so why are they generated?

I use Visual Studio 2010 C++ and my project builds without errors but when I run it I get this. I am on Windows XP. 'Shaders.exe': Loaded 'C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Visual Studio...

What is a PDB file and how can I exclude it from the release folder when I rebuild my solution?

I am having hard days of debugging ASP.NET MVC code.I ended up doing as described in this website.Debug symbols are loaded and working for all dlls but System.Web.MVC. when i double click on any li...

The debug point is not getting enabled when this module gets loaded. So I thought of manually loading its debug symbols .pdb file from "Debug/obj" folder. In this case I am getting below error "A ...

When I build an ASP.NET Core project it copies to the output directory only its own .pdb files and all .dlls of any installed NuGet packages. However, it does not copy their .pdb files. I have to s...

I am trying to decode the following call stack line from procmon: 29 System.Management.Automation.ni.dll System.Management.Automation.ni.dll + 0x897a0a 0x7fee2ae7a0a C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImag...

When using dumpbin to view details on my library: dumpbin /headers Test.dll I see that {{FullFolder to Test.pdb}} is the full folder to the pdb. Debug Directories Time Type Size RVA Pointer ---...

I Am using a third party library in one of my .NET projects. I notice there are a ton of pdb files included in the bin folder - one for each dll. What is the purpose of the pdb file?

I have a VB6 project and have enabled it to generate pdb files (this shows how to do that). However I can't debug with them and when I check them with symcheck I get this output: >SYMCHK: MyFil...

I have a web project that posts from client-side code to a method in external dll, which I have source code file and pdb file of this external dll. What I would like to do is to debug external dll ...

The last couple of days I've been hunting down a problem - with the conclusion: My Visual Studio 2017 debugger can't work with PDBs in "portable" format in .NET Framework projects. With portable...

I am working on a Service Fabric application that contains a number of stateless services and a single stateful service. When I publish the first time, everything is fine and it's deployed to my lo...

If I'm reading correctly, (https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb), pdb's contain debug information. If you were to release one to the customer alongside the exe, would it impose a risk that cu...

We are currently using a single command line tool to build our product on both Windows and Linux. Si far its works nicely, allowing us to build out of source and with finer dependencies than what ...

I am experimenting an analysis tool that can analyze executable files with embedded debug symbol information in Windows. While trying this tool on several open source projects, I realize that most ...

I'm trying to debug a StackOverflow in the EntityFramework NuGet package (version 6.1.3). In order to see the stack frames I need the PDB file for EntityFramework.DLL and EntityFramework.SqlServer....

I'm cross-compiling a project from Linux to target Windows (using mingw). The output is a DLL and p-invoking into it from C# works, but debugging is very difficult. The build outputs a .o file, whi...

When I am debugging my app I see messages: cannot find or open the PDB file I seem to remember being able to specify the location of the PDB file while debugging the app. How can I do this? I...

I've downloaded the MSVC ABI version of Rust 1.7.0 and followed the guessing game section from the docs. I notice that the builds use the native toolchain (Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 in my case) ...

I am trying to set up GitLink for our debugging symbols but it complains that 'PdbStr is not found on the computer, please install 'Debugging Tools for Windows' However after installing said debugg...