hello, all,
my problem: my company sells an COM component compiled in VS6 using ATL. one of
our valued customers is having some problems with a beta version of our
component; it crashes their app. they develop in VSdotNET.
i am considering the possibility of providing them with a pdb file along with
the other stuff we would normally give them to test. i understand that this
requires some trust on our part. that is not an issue in this case.
i am exploring the various makefile params needed to generate the single pdb
file and may have questions on that aspect later; but first i want to understand
better what can be accomplished with the pdb file and how i might observe that
functionality on my dev machine.
suppose i have succeeded in creating MyCOMstuff.pdb.
what must i do in a VS6 client to experience the utility of the pdb file?
assume the MyCOMstuff.dll component is registered on my system and its pdb file
is sitting in the same folder as my client exe.
now what do i do?
will i be able to step into method calls to my component?
thanks for any help on this matter.
i can't seem to find a lucid discussion of it anywhere.