Tips for working with debug symbols for .NET and C++ in Visual Studio 2022

Increase the efficiency of your debugging by taking full control over debug symbols. These demos explore the finer points of VS Symbol Settings in order to decrease wait times, explorer external code, leverage symbols and more.

Intro
Symbols 101
Configuring where symbols are loaded from
Optimizing symbol loading
External sources - debugging code outside of your project
Deferred symbol loading
Decompile modules to C# code
Configuring symbol servers

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[vrajeshbadgujar]

Thank you so much Chuck! It was really useful information

[DamageSoftware]

That was amazing!
Thank you very much for sharing this information with us!

[koenzomers]

Really interesting and well explained! Thanks for sharing.

[pr.loremarguimaraes]

The external sources feature saved my day today, thanks for sharing!

[varunsharma]

Nice, great to see external sources in the side explorer window. This is very good.

[Groovefunkadelik]

This video is exaclty what I have been looking for.

[RenanDuarteHB]

my visual studio community dont have this window "Module" in debug menu :(

[TheDomLouis]

If I have an external device (IoT or Mobile), rather than uploading the pdbs to the device, can I keep them locally and still debug? If so, how would. I set that up.

[joshibhushan]

what's the option for debuggin the external source code in VSCode?

[aroundtheworldwithbadhon]

Sometimes the debuggers just don't get the hit and it keeps saying failed to load the symbols. I tried to clean and rebuild but no luck. What else I could try?