You can’t get a stack trace with line numbers directly from your application unless you bundle the PDB. However, if you have the PDB files for the same version of the app that you ship to your customers, and you don’t mind some light scripting, then you can turn the .NET stack trace and IL … Read more
Actually you can do it also with dotPeek from 1.2 version onward. Right click the assembly in Assembly Explorer, and select “Generate Pdb”. It also has the option to generate files for referenced assemblies all at once.
Now with pictures (as it took me about an hour of trial and fail) Get DotPeek from Jetbrains (Standalone version) Open DotPeek -> File -> Open -> browse to your project bin folder and open EntityFramework.dll Right mouse button on EntityFramework then choose Generate Pdb… Go to folder where you exported it and open EntityFramework.pdb … Read more
You can try setting the compatibility of your VB6 project. It is clearly explained here: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/demystifying-version-compatibility-settings-in-visual-basic/ Maybe the change in the associated GUID causes the pdb mismatch.
the windbg will not modify pdb’s age – it only looks it up to match that of executable – the compiler does when it (re)generates executable and debug files. now, based on the debuginfo.com article, it is not too difficult to arrive at the proper debug directory (of type codeview), match it against PDB7 signature … Read more
If you mean PDB as in a “program database” that the debugger uses: PDB files contain data about a file such as an EXE or DLL that is used to aid in debugging. There are public interfaces that allow you to extract data from the file. See examples here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jmstall/sample-code-for-pdb-2-xml-tool (Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/08/25/pdb2xml.aspx) http://www.codeproject.com/KB/bugs/PdbParser.aspx If … Read more
Understand that the underlying problem is a missing debug symbols file (.pdb) for the library mentioned in the warning. Library files contain a static reference to the .pdb on an object file basis. When a library is used by another library and static compilation is used, Visual Studio collects all the symbols into a single … Read more
After banging my head on the wall for a while on this one and digging through source control to try to get back to a working copy, it turned out that the PDB file wasn’t the issue at all. Someone had deleted a source file which was causing VS to choke when I tried to … Read more
I also bumped to this problem. I was receiving the following error, when trying to publish MVCForum 1.7: Copying file App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt to obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt failed. Could not find file ‘App_Data\NuGetBackup\Hello.txt’. François Breton’s comment helped me achieve the solution. It’s simple: Open your .csproj file with a text editor (Notepad, Notepad++) Visual Studio will open it as … Read more
PDB files contain debug information and are useful if you need to step through the DLL’s code at any point. ILK files are used by the linker. They are not needed unless the DLL is to be recompiled. EXP files contain information about things exported from the DLL