Unable to find or open PDB file workaround

When using the VS debugger, sometimes you will be prompted in the output box at the bottom of VS to "cannot find or open PDB files." How does this work?

Below, we take VS2013 as an example, to teach you the solution.

Tools/Materials

• Vs

Method/Step

1. Open the VS2013 and click the menu "Tools"-"options".

2. In the Options window, expand Debug-General, and then tick enable source server support in the right pane.

3. then expand "Debug"-"Symbols" and tick "Windows Symbol server".

4. A warning dialog box pops up, ignoring clicking OK.

5. Finally, click "OK" to close the Options window.

6. Next, let's click on the "Local Windows Debugger" to debug the Run program.

7. When you run the program for the first time, the associated symbol set is downloaded from the Windows Server, which takes a little time.

Unable to find or open PDB file workaround