Where are the symbols for ASP.NET MVC 4.0 RTM?

I'm trying to configure Visual Studio 2012 to allow me to step into ASP.NET MVC 4.0 source code. (System.Web.Mvc.dll). I've followed SymbolSource's recommended configuration but when I try to load the symbols, Visual Studio can't locate them.

Recommended configuration

To configure Visual Studio for symbol/server use, follow these instructions:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Debugger -> General.

Uncheck “Enable Just My Code (Managed only)”.

Uncheck “Enable .NET Framework source stepping”. Yes, it is misleading, but if you don't, then Visual Studio will ignore your custom server order (see further on).

Check “Enable source server support”.

Uncheck “Require source files to exactly match the original version”

Go to Tools -> Options -> Debugger -> Symbols. Select a folder for the local symbol/source cache.

Add symbol servers under “Symbol file (.pdb) locations”. Pay attention to the correct order, because some servers may contain symbols for the same binaries: with or without sources. We recommend the following setup:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols

http://srv.symbolsource.org/pdb/Public or the authenticated variant (see above)

http://srv.symbolsource.org/pdb/MyGet or the authenticated variant (see above) (other symbol servers with sources)

http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols (other symbol servers without sources)

I am aware

asp.net-mvc-4

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Let me start with that ReSharper provides a handy dialog to step in the code at any time:

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So you get the following code screen if you drill to the source code:

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But I became curious to accomplish this by hand. I started with proper pdb configuration:

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After that I got the following error:

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Next I copied the C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\System.Web.pdb\CA49C4332DE847FA967F58AFF370B70E1\System.Web.pdb to C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\System.Web.pdb (to match the lookup path). After that i encountered this:

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And it turned out that the mismatching builds are only good for browsing the source, not debugging. (Current machine has VS2012 RC, hence MVC libraries are not RTM). If they match, you'll the the source.

I still don't know why doesn't the lookup path adjust to symbol configuration. Hope this helps.

answered 2012-11-04T10:41:39.937

Where are the symbols for ASP.NET MVC 4.0 RTM?

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