rajesh purohit / blog

For 'N' hours I was facing problem with my visual studio 2012 IDE trying to debug an DLL. Somehow it stopped debugging (i.e. code will not stop at any of the breakpoints I placed). I was using external Exe (using Project-> Debug-> Start External Program) to do so. It was working perfectly fine and all of sudden it stopped debugging. I tried every trick google, microsoft and Stackoverflow could throw at me without any luck. Then I stumbled upon old blog entry written by Steven Wouters which did the trick for me... Common issues I faced - The symbol xxxx does not match the module No native symbols in symbol file debugging information for cannot be found vs 2012 stopped debugging code From the blog of Steven Wouters  Debugging in Visual Studio .Net 2003 Am i stupid? No i´m not! But now and then i make stupid mistakes. This is defenitily one off those which costed me an awfull lot of time! What happened? Suddenly, without any obvious reason, i could...