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Dave Sanders
Dave Sanders

Reputation: 3193

Visual Studio: No symbols have been loaded for this project

Yes, I've seen this previous question here and none of the solutions have worked.

On Visual Studio Community 2019 I was debugging a project that I've been working on for years. I have a common library project, that I've built, that I use on multiple solutions - one web, one exe.

In working on the EXE solution, which is one windows app project + about half a dozen other custom libraries, I was debugging along without issue. Changed a bit of code and then started another debugging cycle and suddenly symbols couldn't be loaded for one of the libraries.

If I look in the output folder, the PDB file for the library IS there. If I look in the Debugging Windows... Modules, the library does NOT show up.

If I load up the web project which also uses this library, it debugs fine and the module shows up in the modules window.

I've tried everything in the thread I've referenced above. I've also tried:

I have no clue what to do next. Obviously this one specific project is not loading the DLL, but I can't figure out any possible reason why. The only thing that changed between a successful debug and the missing symbols error was me changing a few lines of code and clicking Run again. (And I even removed the code changes and it still failed.)

I just don't understand what could have caused this, for this singular library, on this single solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2835

Answers (1)

Dave Sanders
Dave Sanders

Reputation: 3193

To anyone who finds this later, I've solved the problem and my code is debugging fine again.

And I have zero clue about what changed, why it started working, or if I even did anything at all. I came back to it the next day, systematically started working through various tests, and suddenly everything was fine - though I didn't do anything differently than the day before.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Upvotes: 2

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