Debugging referenced project

[Bob]

Hi,
What do I have to do to be able to debug an external project
referenced by another project? I have a project that references
several other projects. For some of the external projects, I can hit
"goto class definition" and I get the code in the referenced project
that I can breakpoint, etc. For others, I just get "from metadata"
which shows the various methods and their signatures but no code to
debug. I do not remember doing anything differently in the projects I
can/cannot debug externally.

Thanks,
Bob

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Bob <bs********@yahoo.comwrote:

What do I have to do to be able to debug an external project
referenced by another project? I have a project that references
several other projects. For some of the external projects, I can hit
"goto class definition" and I get the code in the referenced project
that I can breakpoint, etc. For others, I just get "from metadata"
which shows the various methods and their signatures but no code to
debug. I do not remember doing anything differently in the projects I
can/cannot debug externally.

You need to have the PDB files generated for the referenced assemblies,
and the source of course.

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[Bob]

On Sep 12, 4:13 pm, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <[e-mail]:

Bob <[e-mail]:

What do I have to do to be able to debug an external project
referenced by another project? I have a project that references
several other projects. For some of the external projects, I can hit
"goto class definition" and I get the code in the referenced project
that I can breakpoint, etc. For others, I just get "from metadata"
which shows the various methods and their signatures but no code to
debug. I do not remember doing anything differently in the projects I
can/cannot debug externally.

You need to have the PDB files generated for the referenced assemblies,
and the source of course.

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Thanks for your quick response. There is a pdb file in the referenced
folder with the same name (before extensions of exe and pdb) as my
reference.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Bob <bs********@yahoo.comwrote:

Thanks for your quick response. There is a pdb file in the referenced
folder with the same name (before extensions of exe and pdb) as my
reference.

It needs to be the latest version - i.e. the pdb has to be from the
same build as the dll.

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