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Water Cooler v2
Water Cooler v2

Reputation: 33880

Windbg .load extension wants an escaped backslash (\) character in the path

When I try to load an extension such as sos or psscor4 using the .load commmand in Windbg, it exhibits a behavior I did not expect. So, may be it is just a matter of setting my expectation right as to this behavior being normal.

For example, when I say:

0:00> .load "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\sos.dll"

It complains as follows:

The call to LoadLibrary(C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFramework64v4.0.30319sos.dll) failed, Win32 error 0n2 "The system cannot find the file specified." Please check your debugger configuration and/or network access.

I infer that it is expecting me to escape the backslash.

However, when I escape the backslash character like so, it works just fine and loads the extension.

0:00> .load "C:\\Windows\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v4.0.30319\\sos.dll"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 615

Answers (2)

Thomas Weller
Thomas Weller

Reputation: 59523

It loads fine without quotation marks

0:00> .load C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\sos.dll

even if the path contains spaces.

Upvotes: 2

Mohammad Hossein jfp
Mohammad Hossein jfp

Reputation: 528

Hi use look like this 

@"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\sos.dll"

hope it help

Upvotes: 2

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