Microsoft's symbol files for Windows UWP debugging in VS C++ 2015 aren't working?

Question

I'm trying to debug a UWP app for Windows 10 desktop and see the contents of a object (in this case a BluetoothLEDevice object) at a breakpoint. At first, the symbol file was missing, so I went into options and turned on the fetching from the Microsoft Symbol Servers. However, now when I debug, I still am not seeing anything beyond raw object data, along with this message:

<No type information available in symbol file for Windows.Devices.Bluetooth.dll> Windows::Devices::Bluetooth::BluetoothLEDevice

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I could repro this issue using a sample in my side, it really couldn't show the object information in the debugging local window even if the symbol file was loaded normally in X86 target.

But if I change the platform target from X86 to X64, I will get the information like the following screen shot:

It really loaded the different version dll files and pdb files after I changed the target. But not found the real reason why it has the specific requirement for the platform target, I use the windows 10 64 bit machine.

Since I could repro this issue, I submitted a report here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/3120892/microsofts-symbol-files-for-windows-uwp-debugging-in-vs-c-2015-arent-working

You could also check the latest update information from above feedback.