Why does Visual Studio require debugger symbol files to exactly match the binary files that they were built with- July 6, 2007 Recently a coworker of mine lost the symbol file for one of his binaries. Because he needed to debug that binary, getting those symbols back was of utmost importance since debugging without them is near impossible. He decided to try and use a symbol file from a previous build whose sources exactly matched. Much to his chagrin he found that Visual Studio refused to load them. He asked me: "Why is it that Visual Studio cannot load a symbol file for a binary that was..http://blogs.msdn.com/jimgries/archive/2007/07/06/why-does-visual-studio-require-debugger-... |