visual studio 2008 - Why are no Symbols loaded when remote debugging?

Question

I want to use remote debugging. The program that I want to debug runs on machine b. Visual Studio runs on machine a.

On machine b I have a folder with the following files:

• msvcr72.dll
• msvsmon.exe
• NatDbgDE.dll
• NatDbgDEUI.dll
• NatDbgEE.dll
• NatDbgEEUI.dll

If you think some files are missing, could you also describe where they are usually located?

In the next step I started the msvsmon.exe and my program on machine b. On machine a, I started Visual Studio 2008 and my solution in which the program was written. Then I choose "Debug - Attach to Process". I chose "Remote Transport (Native Only with no authentication)". I used the correct IP as a qualifier and took the right process (program.exe). After a while the following message occurred in a popup-window:

Unhandled exception at 0x7c812a7b in program.exe: 0xE0434F4D: 0xe0434f4d

I can continue or break; When continuing, the exception occurs again and again and again. So I pressed break and the following message occurred:

No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed.

Answer 1

Make sure you copy the .PDB file that is generated with your assembly into the same folder on the remote machine. This will allow the debugger to pickup the debug symbols.