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Asked: 2026-06-02T07:11:13+00:00

Using Visual Studio 2010 to remote debug a C# .dll — getting .PDB file

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Using Visual Studio 2010 to remote debug a C# .dll — getting .PDB file does not match – any yet it is absolutely the from the build……………

New info: [[ This problem is not resolved. I have three computers: a)XP sp3, b)XP sp3 and c)Vista sp1, I can build the simplest of test programs on a) and c), and using the module window — select my test5.exe and load the .pdb that was created when it was created – same date same time same folder… and yet Visual Studio says “a matching symbol file was not found in this folder” — all efforts to load the correct .pdb fail with not matching complaint…. be it: a) remote to b) or c) -or- c) remote to a) or b) — HELP! ]]

I have set the location of the .PDB implicitly and explicitly – does not matter….

I have set the symbol settings to be unchecking that source files must match exactly….

I am seeing no Errs….

Just:

C:\POSWIN\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\obj\Debug\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: PDB does not match image.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\symbols\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: PDB does not match image.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\symbols\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Projects\SP\DBS.KGW.tst7STUB\DBS.KGW.tst7\bin\Debug\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\WINDOWS\symbols\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\WINDOWS\DLL\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\WINDOWS\DBS.KGW.tst7.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
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    The solution is that for remote debug connections there are two ways to connect, authorized and unauthorized… For firewall issues, I defaulted to unauthorized. For VS 2010 C# solutions the complaint is merely the .PDB does not match. Having exhausted all options I could think of I went and reproduced my simple test solution in C++, the interface is different and better and there is a warning as you set this up that you will not get symbols unless you are on an authorized connection!!! — Once I overcome the firewall issue — and see my symbols via an authorized connection to the remote PC that is being debugged, I will post that confirmation…… btw, often it is warned that when you sign-on via an authorized connection the user ID and password for both the host and debugged computer must be the same, furthermore the user on the debugged computer must have “logon as service” right added to its user…..

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