Cannot find or open the PDB file in Visual Studio C 2010

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I use Visual Studio 2010 C   and my project builds without errors but when I run it I get this  I am on Windows XP    Shaders exe   Loaded  C  Documents and Settings User My Documents Visual Studio        2010 Projects Shaders Win32 Debug Shaders exe   Symbols loaded   Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 ntdll dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 kernel32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB  file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4 8 3 bin QtCored4 dll   Symbols  loaded   Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 user32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 gdi32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 ole32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 advapi32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 rpcrt4 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 secur32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 msvcrt dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 ws2 32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 ws2help dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 msvcp100d dll   Symbols loaded   Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 msvcr100d dll   Symbols loaded   Shaders exe   Loaded  C  qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4 8 3 bin QtGuid4 dll   Symbols loaded   Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 comdlg32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 comctl32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 shell32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 shlwapi dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 oleaut32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 imm32 dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 winmm dll   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  WINDOWS system32 winspool drv   Cannot find or open the PDB file  Shaders exe   Loaded  C  qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4 8 3 bin QtOpenGLd4 dll   Symbols loaded    Thanks

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Answer by Paul is right  I am just putting the visual to easily get there   Go to Tools- Options- Debugging- Symbols  Set the checkbox marked in red and it will download the pdb files from microsoft  When you set the checkbox  it will also set a default path for the pdb files in the edit box under  you don t need to change that

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you just add the path of  pdb to work directory of VS

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I ran into a similar problem where Visual Studio  2017  said it could not find my project s PDB file  I could see the PDB file did exist in the correct path  I had to Clean and Rebuild the project  then Visual Studio recognized the PDB file and debugging worked

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PDB is a debug information file used by Visual Studio  These are system DLLs  which you don t have debug symbols for  Go to Tools- Options- Debugging- Symbols and select checkbox  Microsoft Symbol Servers   Visual Studio will download PDBs automatically  Or you may just ignore these warnings if you don t need to see correct call stack in these modules

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This can also happen if you don t have Modify permissions on the symbol cache directory configured in Tools  Options  Debugging  Symbols

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If you have more as one Project in your Project Map use THE SAME hard coded PathFile PDB Name in all your Sub-Projects    Use e g    D  Visual Studio Projects my app MyFile pdb   Dont use e g     IntDir  MyFile pdb   in all the Sub-Projects        Compiler Param   Fd

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Working with VS 2013  Try the following Tools -  Options -  Debugging -  Output Window -  Module Load Messages -  Off    It will disable the display of modules loaded

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