Where must PDB files be located for debugging to work?

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '16 at 09:07

A program database (PDB) file holds debugging and project state information that allows incremental linking of a debug configuration of your program. A PDB file is created when you build with /debug (Visual Basic/C#). You can build Visual Basic and Visual C# applications with /debug:full or /debug:pdbonly. Building with /debug:full generates debuggable code. Building with /debug:pdbonly generates PDBs but does not generate the DebuggableAttribute that tells the JIT compiler that debug information is available. Use /debug:pdbonly if you want to generate PDBs for a release build that you do not want to be debuggable.

Also check this article by John Robbins: PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know

Where must PDB files be located for debugging to work?

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