Why am I encountering errors when I try to use the Visual Studio Analyzer?

Question

I have written a small application in C# using Visual Studio 2010. It is a small "hello world" application and running perfectly fine. But when I try to analyze it using the built-in Visual Studio Analyzer and run the "sample" analysis, it gives the following errors:

Failed to load symbols for C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll.
Failed to load symbols for C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\mscoreei.dll.
Failed to load symbols for C:\WINDOWS\system32\rsaenh.dll.
Failed to load symbols for C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll.
Failed to load symbols for C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll.

How can I resolve these errors so that I can use the analyzer on my application? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to enable to your visual studio to download symbols from Microsoft Symbols server.

1. Click on Tools > Options
2. Under Debugging Menu > Select Symbols

3. Check Microsoft Symbol Servers

   

4. Run the analyzer again and everything should be fine.