Re: Debugging "in the field"
"neilsolent" wrote:
Alex, thanks very much for your post.
You're welcome. :)
If I copy the PDB file, it has certainly done something - but it
now prompts me for the
location of the source files!
Yes, because source files full path is embedded into the .PDB
file. However, you don't need to provide exactly the same path.
Just select correct source file from any location and debugger
will pick up it from there. The source file must be the same that
was used in the build. Debugger checks timestamp and checksum of
the file before it can load it.
I guess I could just copy the whole project over, bit of a pain
though when I am updating and testing continuously.
You may consider remote debugging, when you debug on the source
server while target process is running on the test server. Then
you won't need to copy source files and insatll debugger on the
test server.
I was hoping to somehow embed all the debug info in the
executable - perhaps it is just not possible.
Yes, it is impossible to embed source files into the PDB. At
least, I'm not aware of such method.
Alex