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Where must PDB files be located for debugging to work?

In this answer the user suggests using Symbol Servers. Can anyone explain how they work and how to set it up (if possible) with TFS 2008?

In the output directory where Visual Studio places the compiled executable, there are three additional files of the types *.exp, *.lib, .pdb. I do not need those files and I would like to prevent the ...

When I first created my project and ran it, I didn't get these messages: 'iisexpress.exe' (CLR v4.0.30319: DefaultDomain): Loaded 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_32\System.Web\v4.0_4.0.0....

Visual Studio 2022 C# WPF Project I want to distribute a single .exe file, without requiring the target computer to install .NET 6.0 runtimes. I can only find solutions for C/C++ code generation in ...

There's some conflicting info on the web regarding best practices when it comes to handling .pdb files, and I would be grateful for a clarification. For example, this source says that "PDB files are ...

This confuses me a lot. My understanding is that when I compile an application it becomes optimized code that my operating system reads. Things from my source code such as variable names, line ...

I am attempting to debug a class library in VS2013, however whenever I set a breakpoint in the library, it seems to be ignored when executing the code. I am using a console project, which is located ...

Sitecore appears to be doing something freaky with the language variable in it's Context object. If I load a CMS page using the url ?sc_Lang=ru-RU (get the Russian version of my site), by the time it ...

I want to create an msi installation file using wix. I want to create these distributions as wix installation files. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas....

For my first export script I took the KCEC example and the APIRefExport.chm documentation to create my project by replacing the example code with my own. I would like to create a clean export script ...

I am trying to analyze .NET memory dump and state of Task objects on heap. I am using fantastic WinDBg extension MEX. !TaskTriage shows all Tasks in very nice table. Some of them has value in method ...

Following the documentation on the Debuggable Attribute that is set by the C# compiler and specifically the DebuggingFlags property, there is the flag IgnoreSymbolStoreSequencePoints which seems to be ...

C#/.Net devs: I've a DLL project. To debug I created a solution and with a Win Forms project with reference to DLL, included the project for the DLL. Recently, I had to sign the DLL w/ strong name ...

I used VS2012 to build a very small console app. After I build it in release mode, not release(active), it still generates debug file such as .pdb .vshost.exe .exe.config .vshost.exe.config .vshost....