Re: Debugging "in the field"

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <bvoigt@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:16:29 -0500
Message-ID:
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Alex Blekhman wrote:

"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.


There is a Source Server which distributes PDBs and source files just in
time to the debugger, and integrates into all the Microsoft debuggers.

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