How do I remedy The breakpoint will not currently be hit No symbols have been loaded for this document warning

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A C  desktop application on the express edition worked  but then it didn t work 5 seconds later   I tried the following    Ensure debug configuration  debug flag  and full debug information are set on all assemblies  Delete all bin and obj folders and all DLL files related to the project from my entire machine  Recreate projects causing the problem from scratch  Reboot    I have two Windows Forms projects in the solution  One of them loads the debug information  one doesn t  They both refer to the assembly I m trying to get debug information on in exactly the same way in the project file  Any ideas     I want to add here  mostly for myself when I come back to review this question  that symbols are not loaded until the assembly is loaded  and the assembly is not loaded until it is needed  If the breakpoint is in a library that is only used in one function in your main assembly  the symbols will not be loaded  and it will show the breakpoint as not being hit  until that function is called

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In my case  it was because my publishing profile  Publish to local IIS site  was somehow set to Release Configuration  despite the fact that the global build configuration was set to Debug  Modified the publishing profile to Debug configuration solved the issue for me

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I had similar issue and I did the following  Debug  Options  General    Remove the check mark for  Enable Just My Code  This worked for me

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I tried everything mentioned above  but nothing worked   Clean solution  and check for PDB files etc    Even publishing the same solution did not resolve the issue   Then I went to back to what I usually do to resolve  fool this stubborn Visual Studio   All I did was to make a deliberate change in code and publish the solution  Then I reverted the change and published again   Voila  PDB files rid of evil spirits    Not a smart resolution  but this did work    -

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For my Xamarin application  it finally started debugging after I completely wiped the Source Control folder  did  Get Latest   and rebuilt the solution

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Right click on Project -  Properties -  Go to Build Tab -  Uncheck Optimize Code  Do It for any project in your solution

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I was integrating a C  application with a static library using VS10 - which I m new to  I wrote a managed code dll to interface them   I could set breakpoints everywhere but the static lib   I got the message described above - no symbols have been loaded for this document   I tried many of the suggestions above   I could see that the symbols weren t being loaded   I finally noticed a check box Configuration Debug  Enable unmanaged code debugging   That allowed me to set breakpoints in the static lib functions

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Because there s file in another project have same name  May be you have two controllers have same name

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It is also worth to mention that in some situations the problem occurs  because the project you want to debug is an external service  In that case you have to attach debugger to the running process

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Make sure your files are open from the relevant project  not from another  old  one   Example    You working on a project  close the VS  but you left files  tabs  open in VS  Copy your project to a new folder and open solution  The files  tabs  will load from the old directory and if you want to debug then you cannot debug until you close them and reload them from the current folder    I was very close to reinstall my VS because nothing helped for me from another answers  but fortunately I realised this in my project and I can debug now

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I was using IE8 and trying to make changes to some JavaScript files  Although the code was being executed  it would not stop at the breakpoints and I was getting the same message on the breakpoints  Upgrading to IE11 fixed the issue for me

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I have read carefully all the answers above  but none of them solved my problem   In my case  I was compiling a class library  DLL   No modules seem to be loaded in Debug -  Modules  so I couldn t even load the symbols manually   My solution was to add this line to my code   System Diagnostics Debugger Launch      Once this code is reached  an exception is triggered and  NET Framework shows a dialog box asking which Visual Studio  i e  new instance of VS 2008  new instance of VS 2013  etc  you want to use to debug the program  You can choose the existing instance of VS with your project loaded  This will attach the process to your VS session and load all symbols  and now you can debug your project   Of course  the compilation has to be done using the Debug configuration  not Release

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Just Check whether your solution is in Release Mode

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Maybe you should not have been making an AutoPostBack  If your code doesn t make a PostBack  you can get this error  Regards

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this happened to me after copy paste another webservice asmx file into an existing webservice  resulting in the same error when trying to debug the recently added service  to be able to debug I had to start without debug  then attach to the process  its weird but its the only way i found to be able to debug

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I tried all of these and could not get my break-point working     What i did to fix this issue was  In the page where my break-point was not hitting  i selected the folder   add an existing item and then select the page from its save path  This allowed the break point to start working

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In my case  in the AssemblyInfo cs file  there was the below line and I commented it and everything was right    assembly  System Diagnostics Debuggable System Diagnostics DebuggableAttribute DebuggingModes IgnoreSymbolStoreSequencePoints

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Yet another solution for me was to post-build the project that was unable to break into the main project s bin folder

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Check your Solution Configuration drop down list  Make sure you select Debug  not Release

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As of VS2019 - 16 8 4  I used Microsoft Edge to make this work  I hope Microsoft will fix it in Firefox

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Webapplications  IIS Express  only    Rightclick IIS Express Tray and close the IIS  Clean Solution

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Check are the following two setting the same in Visual Studio   Right click test project  go to Properties  Build tab  and look at Platform target  Mine are all set to  Any CPU  so x64    On the Main Menu bar  go to Test  Test Settings  Default Processor Architecture  Mine was set to X86    Changing this to X64 to match above setting made the built in Visual Studio menu    Debug Test s     work and hit breakpoints that were previously ignored with the message    The breakpoint will not currently be hit  No symbols have been loaded for this document       Update    For Visual Studio 2019 the menus have been moved around a bit

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Check if your  pbd file is missing in your bin Debug folder  If it is then go to  Properties  of your project  selected  Build  and then  Advanced  at the bottom  Choose  full  under  Debug info  in the new window that appeared  This was my issue and solved it for me

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UWP  If you are debugging a Universal Windows Project  UWP   the process is similar to solutions with mixed C  and Native code  Except you need to set the Application process or the Background Task process debugger to Managed Only to debug you C  code   Right-click your Startup Project in Solution Explorer Select Properties Select  quot Debug quot  tab Set process debugger type to Managed Only

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If you are using a C   project or dll from a C  or any  Net project  and you want to debug into the native code  Then go to the  Net Project Properties -  Debug -  Enable native code debugging  set it to true

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You need to enable  Generate debug info  in compiler settings

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I d like to add one more thing that can prevent stepping breaking by not loading the  pdb file  after not finding this in any other forum  if you add a build post-process to add resource meta-data to the DLL  company name  version number  etc   as in  rc exe my dll rc   this may be causing a mis-match between the DLL and the  pdb file   If the signatures don t match  it won t load the file and all the symbols you need for debugging   Remove this from the debug build

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Sometimes  even though it gives you this error  the breakpoint still gets hit  so just ignore the error  This happens fairly often in the Views of an MVC web app

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Start debugging  as soon as you ve arrived at a breakpoint or used Debug  gt  Break All  use Debug  gt  Windows  gt  Modules   You ll see a list of all the assemblies that are loaded into the process   Locate the one you want to get debug info for   Right-click it and select Symbol Load Information   You ll get a dialog that lists all the directories where it looked for the  pdb file for the assembly   Verify that list against the actual  pdb location   Make sure it doesn t find an old one  In normal projects  the assembly and its  pdb file should always have been copied by the IDE into the same folder as your  exe  i e  the bin Debug folder of your project   Make sure you remove one from the GAC if you ve been playing with it

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I was going mad trying to figure out why my JavaScript file would not debug and it took looking in the  Script Documents   the loaded scripts  to realise my script was not there   The designer had edited the page headers and replaced my individual developer JavaScript files with a combined minified version  I didn t realise until an half an hour s worth of googling and debugging attempts   So basically I recommend looking in that list when debugging  If it s not in there  it can t be debugged  Doh   The designer was doing the right thing  It just should have happened at the release stage  not the beta  A list of which script includes were minified would also be good  so it can be rebuilt for development   BTW I tried the Modules stuff from previous answers  and obviously it was not that  The script was actually not being loaded in the project  Sigh

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A new way to get this problem has appeared as of Visual Studio 2017 15 3 1 through 15 3 5  If you are using EditorConfig  the charset utf8 option causes these symptoms  The VS team has reproduced this and says they are working on it   So one fix is to comment out your charset utf8 line in the  editorconfig file   Status is now  Fixed - pending release  as of October 9  2017    Thanks to John Hatton   quot The breakpoint will not currently be hit  The source code is different from the original version  quot  What does this mean

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None of the ideas here worked for me but I thank everyone for their efforts - in my case it was a Windows application that referenced a class library project - I could debug the windows application but not the class library   The pdb files were being generated   I did however find that if I debug on the call to the class library  I could step into the library

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I had this problem   My issue was that the aspx  aspx vb and aspx designer vb files were imported wrong  Perhaps they were imported one by one to the project    The breakpoint were in the aspx vb  but was unreachable and had the warning of this question   The solution was to delete the three files and import them again  Now I can reach the breakpoint

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I know I m years late  but I thought I d done something wrong and followed the above steps then I realised I d set the solution configuration to  Release  by mistake

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Had the problem when trying to debug a silverlight application in a sharepoint project  Under the sharepoint tab of the project properties you have to explicitly enable debugging for silverlight applications  Else you get this error

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Debug   Windows   Modules to see what modules were being loaded put me in the right direction   In my case IIS Express seemed to be loading a different DLL from the temporary ASP NET files   The solution    Browse to C  Users  lt YOUR USER gt  AppData Local Temp Temporary ASP NET Files vs Delete everything in this directory

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If you are finding that you are having to build projects in your solution individually in a particular order to get the solution to build because building the solution directly after a clean doesn t work  and then you are finding the problem described in the Question  it is possibly due to the inclusion of some additional projects that have references to incorrect relative paths because they have been added to your solution from a different location  Therefore  the relative paths don t go to the same location as the  csproj files that are sat in folders directly under your  sln file   The reason it would build by building the projects one by one in a particular order is because the other projects reference the same libraries but then build to the GAC  The solution ends up building but the symbols it loads are from the GAC and these symbols may become outdated   The solution as it were is to restructure the physical folder structure of your solution and projects  or to open the  csproj files individually and fix the relative paths so that all references to any given library ultimately point to the same location in all projects  Or perhaps use the   SolutionDir  token   And if all else still fails  then you need to force Visual Studio into resetting your build configuration and this requires you to uncheck all projects for all build configurations and then to recheck them all - see the solution here

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My coworker had this problem  followed similar steps as those here  but the solution was different than any of these given   The code she wanted to debug was in a project referenced by the current project  and it was never running within the Visual Studio session  The DLL was running from the GAC folder  after she deleted that the project wouldn t run at all  throwing an exception as soon as it tried to run  The solution was to include the referenced project in the local folder   From the SolutionExplorer    Select the  debugging  project you will run out of Expand References  if not visible  select menu Project  item Show all files  Right-click the project which has the break point that is not working  select Properties Change value of Copy Local from False to True   Try again   It worked for her

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In my situation  the Visual Studio loads the DLLs in Global Assembly Cache  GAC   not the DLL in my project list  I deleted the DLLs in GAC and now I can see the break point working

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If you have both C  and native code C C     make sure that native debugging is enabled for the project  1  Right-click your Startup Project in Solution Explorer 2  Select Properties 3  Select  Debug  tab 4  Make sure Native Code debugging is enabled

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I was getting this and was stumped  using Visual Studio 2013 Premium    Normally our apps at work reference  dlls in a particular common app directory  like this  C  OurCompanyApps xxxxxx dll  This was happening in a solution that has a bunch of WinForm and  dll projects in it  The  dll projects compile to C  OurCompanyApps  and the WinForm projects reference the compiled  dll files in that location   The problem  I found that the app in question was referencing the  dll project in the Source Control bin Debug location instead of the compiled  dll file in C  OurCompanyApps   Solution  I deleted the reference and re-added it from the C  OurCompanyApps  location  Then I could step-through the breakpoints I had added in the  dll code   Hope this helps someone

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I realize this is an old thread  but for the benefit of others here is what happened to me  The issue was in how I applied the Designer attribute  I created a designer class  The designer overrode PrefilterProperties to make the Anchor  AutoScroll and AutoSize properties read only    System Security Permissions PermissionSet System Security Permissions SecurityAction Demand  Name  FullTrust    public class j2aScrollableContainerDesigner   ParentControlDesigner   I created a class and added my designer to it  This is the standard way to attach a designer attribute to a class and is found in many MSDN examples  The designer was obviously not being used because when I placed my control on a Form design surface  none of the properties mentioned above were read only in the Property Grid    Designer typeof j2aScrollableContainerDesigner   typeof ParentControlDesigner    public partial class j2aScrollableContainer   UserControl   Out of desperation  I changed the Designer attribute declaration on my class to the following signature and the designer was now called  I have no explanation as to why one way works and the other doesn t  If I revert to the above Designer attribute declaration  the designer will quit working again    Designer typeof j2aScrollableContainerDesigner    public partial class j2aScrollableContainer   UserControl

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My situation was with Visual Studio 2019 and we have both C  and C   code   Not sure what I screwed up  but the solution was to change from auto to Native as the C  code was working  Debug - gt  Attach to Process    and where it says Attach to  select native code  in my case    Find the process in question and voila

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Had this problem yesterday with a Web Project  tried many of the solutions proposed here and didnt work   How did I solve   Right click on the project -  Properties -  Web tab  In Servers section I changed IIExpress for Local IIS  created the virtual dir  and voil

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Sometimes IIS will hold on to files for some reason  I had to delete the website and create it anew and the problem went away

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The Following steps forked for me    Go to the  bin  folder of your project  Delete the  Debug  folder  Build your project again  The Debug folder will get re-created    Now you can start debugging again

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For me  the problem was just that I was trying to debug in a web project that was not set as the startup project  So it was not well compiled when running debug and the  pdb wasn t up to date   Just setting the project to  Set up as startup project  did the trick   Hope this helps

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No meu caso dei um F11 na chamada do m  todo  for  ando entrar no m  todo onde o BP com problema estava  sendo assim  o break point foi recuperado   In my case I gave an F11 in the method call  forcing to enter the method where the problem BP was  so the break point was recovered

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When trying to debug an Excel AddIn in VS 2013  after I had tried all Debug settings by disabling DotNet Framework Source Stepping and disabling Symbol Loading  what finally worked for me was changing the Configuration Setting to Release rather than Debug  since the compiler seemed to step over the code and the breakpoints were eventually hit

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I ran into this problem trying to debug the background agent of a WP7 app  As it turned out  this debugging issue was only a symptom of the real problem  My background agent wasn t running at all in debug mode  I had followed the following guide on how to implement a background agent  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library hh202941 v vs 92  aspx      but forgot to add   define DEBUG AGENT   which meant that my agent was never actually being started in debugging mode  Once this line was added  the problem that this thread is about went away

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As stupid as it may sound  be 101  sure that you are referencing the right class    In my case I have a GameObject in which I added the wrong script to the components  Hence  there is no way for Visual Studio to actually reach the code   I simply had to delete the wrong C  script and component and add right one

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After trying a bunch of these  the thing that ultimately worked for me was this   In Debug  gt  Options  gt  General  uncheck Enable Edit and Continue

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Just something simple to try - you may have tried it already   Right click the Solution in solution explorer  click  clean solution   this deletes all the compiled and temporary files associated with a solution   Do a rebuild of the solution and try to debug again   I ve also had troubles with breakpoints multiple projects in a solution - some compiled as x86  some as x64

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We found the cause of our problem  This code was using the  CodeBehind  attribute in the Page directive of the  aspx file instead of the  CodeFile  attribute  ASP NET 2 0 and beyond   After days of desperation  a simple search and replace solved the problem

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I ve had this happen when launching an ASP NET website in 2013  It appears that in my case it goes away once the web browser completely launches

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My personal situation was that the debug was working in Visual Studio 2013  where it was originally created  but wouldn t working in 2015   I was able to fix this by changing the version in the project file to version 12 instead of version 10

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This can be cause by a test project  web project  or other execution project having a Nuget reference to a project with the same name as the module being loaded   Take the following example projects in a solution    Vendor ABC MyLib  references Vendor ABC  MyProg  console program  referencing MyLib only  MyProg Web  MVC project  references MyLib and solution project Vendor ABC  MyLib Test  Test Project  references MyLib and Nuget package Vendor ABC    MyProg and MyProg Web will both load the debug symbols  MyLib Test will not load debug symbols

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Make sure your code is not getting thrown out at link time   Even though the compiler may rebuild an object  if the linker sees no reference to the code it will toss it out and cause this error when attempting to set a breakpoint

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I had the same problem  I tried EVERYTHING in this post   My solution   Change the Visual Studio version  I was trying to open it on VS2013  ended up opening it on VS2015

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I had the same issue and I tried everything possible   some of those are  1  Nuking temp files in Temporary ASP NET Folders in bin and obj folders   2  Unchecking the Optimize code and Enable my code  3  Navigating and trying to manually load the symbols from module windows   4  Checking the build flag in the properties of solution            And the list goes on   I spent like one day on this but what finally worked for me actually was    I knew that the symbols for my project was not being loaded and i could not see any modules with my project name in the modules window either     so the issue was my symbols were being brought from virtual directory path of the project    and it was mapped to the virtual directory of some other project instead    the web project that was supposed to load in the modules was not there Following are the steps i followed     Right click the specific web project and select properties Go to Web tab You can see the Create Virtual Directory button As soon as i clicked it i saw an alert message saying  the  projectname  is mapped to  anotherProjectName   are you sure you want to do the remapping  Something like this then it made sense that for why i was seeing the unecessary project name in the modules window then i rebuilt the solution and was able to hit the breakpoint

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WINCE  I happened to encounter this during build on WinCE  it seemed that the  Clean  did not clean the target folder on the device  I got the debug break back by changing the Output folder on Devices  Project Properties-- Devices tab-- change Output folder to other than the previous failed debug  -- and voila   it works  Might have to do manual cleanup on the device  but that will be later   Hope this help

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Check if you have enabled  Enable just my code   If yes  disable it

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My experience is in trying to remotely debug a web app I deployed to an AWS server   The problem is that when I deploy to the server  it compiles and creates the exe and pdb files at that time   But the local compiled exe and pdb file does not match the deployed files on the server  so when I attach to the remote process and then try to load symbols in Debug Windows Modules for my project s DLL  it finds the local pdb file and I get an error  quot PDB does not match image  quot  So after trying all the above suggestions  this is what I did to make breakpoints work   Connect and log in to the remote web server  Go to the folder where the exe and pdb files are kept   In my case  it was C  inetpub AspNetCoreWebApps app  Copy the   pdb files in that folder  Paste the pdb files to your local computer where it s looking for the project s pdb files   You will find the path in Debug Windows Modules  right-click your DLL and select Symbol Load Information    Now you can use Debug Attach to Process    to attach to the remote process and it should load the symbols since the pdb now matches the remote exe file   Once you are done remote debugging  you can rebuild the project to restore the current pdb files so you can debug locally  It may be possible to add a path to the symbol path list that would load the pdbs from the remote server  but if there is I have not found it yet   And that may be more cumbersome than simply copying the pdb files from the remote server to your local VS environment

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it was so easyyyy  it also happend for me because  pdb file of the project have not copy in debug Bin folder then it could not load symboles   pdb file  in debug mode   in this way   you must rebuild your target project and manually copy the symboles   pdb file  in debug Bin folder of execute project

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Yet Another solution for some cases where this error occurs  check your Build Action    I had this issue in an asp net MVC3 project  one of my controllers had for some unknown reason it s Build Action set to EntityDeploy although it should have been Compile

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I resolved this way  Run the project   Go to  Debug -  Windows -  Modules Choose the library you want debug and right click in it  Choose -   Load Symbols  and then will change  Skipped loading suymbols  for  Symbols loaded

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Check if you are not in release but in Debug  When in debug  First try rebuilding your project by right mouse click the project  gt  Rebuild If that doesn t work  try a clean of the project  right mouse click on the project  gt  clean  If that didn t work check this   Right mouse click your project Select  Properties  Select the  Build  tab Make sure  Define DEBUG constant  and  Define TRACE constant  are checked Make sure  Optimize Code  is unchecked Click the  Advanced  button at the bottom of the Build tabpage Make sure that  Debug Info   is set to  full  Click  OK  and rebuild the project  -    step 6 generates the  pdb files  these are the debugging symbols

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Main project has both Project Reference and File reference to same project    In my case  the main project had two references one was a project reference and another File reference  to the dll generated by same project   Thus  pdb file was not being copied to Main project s bin folder  leading to unavailability of the symbols

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I had set a breakpoint and got this message on that breakpoint when executing the code  However  the breakpoint was only accessible to a unit test  I had to right click the unit test and select  debug unit tests  Doh

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I think the source if this error is  the debug symbols have a hard time surfacing to the solution after building for release   I tried all the other answers -- generally  regenerating  pdb symbols or checking their location  cleaning and rebuilding project  ensuring active configuration is not Release etc   What eventually worked for me is right-clicking on the project in solution explorer   Debug   Start new instance

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In my case  Optimize Code  was checked in my project properties   This caused VS to see my assembly as  not my code   and in turn  it did not load symbols for it   The solution was to uncheck this

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Option   Start debugging  Debug   Windows   Modules  does not exist in Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 edition   Unchecking  Use Managed Compatibility Mode  in Tools Options Debugging fixes this

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I had accidently opened the project file in a text editor and it was unloaded  Unlikely  but check it out if you re stuck

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I went through all answers nothing helped much  In my case problem with web config file  It was  lt compilation debug  false  strict  true    I changed to   lt compilation debug  true  strict  false   Now I can debug application

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Instead of doing all these things just   Close and reopen  the solution it will fix the issue

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Maybe I can add something new  Unless I missed something  possible   in these many posts  there doesn t appear to be an accepted solution or any mention of System Reflection Assembly LoadFrom filename  which is the method  NET provides when you need explicit control  If the Modules tab shows assemblies loading from unexpected locations  this is how you can fix that and get your debug breaks back    Sometimes there are very good reasons for doing this  For me  it was when I was supporting a platform that allowed users to create somewhat arbitrary plug-ins  and I had to be careful about having a race with those plugins about where the common assemblies get loaded from  The goal was to make sure the  golden  versions living in the same directory as my Platform exe would ALWAYS be the ones to load without exception   Putting them in the GAC is sometimes the right answer but not always    I has been rightly mentioned in other posts that default build settings cause referenced assemblies to get copied locally in the  bin of the plug in when it builds  Plug-ins are one example of a use case where that s the total opposite of what you want to happen  There might be 100 users with 100 plugins and 100 copies of a given assembly  Which one of the 100 will load  And will it be the latest  correct version   Here s how I was able to do this reliably for a real-world platform that I supported for more than a decade  loading assemblies up-front   using System  using System ComponentModel  using System Diagnostics  using System IO  using System Reflection  using System Windows Forms    STAThread  static void Main         PreLoadAssemblies        Form appInstance   new InstanceManager        Application Run appInstance      private static void PreLoadAssemblies            Obtain an explicit folder path relative to where        the main executable   Platform exe   is running      string dir           Path GetDirectoryName Assembly GetExecutingAssembly   Location               Accessories PlugIn google-drive-sync netstandard2 0        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis Auth dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis Drive v3 dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis Auth PlatformServices dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis Core dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Google Apis PlatformServices dll        PreLoadAssembly dir   Newtonsoft Json v10 dll       private static void PreLoadAssembly string dir  string name        try               Assembly resolved   Assembly LoadFrom dir          name           Debug Assert resolved    null             catch  Exception ex                Debug Assert false  ex Message

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When debugging an assembly by starting an external application there are some extra considerations    The external app may load its own copies of assemblies  DLLs  from a manifest file   e g   file appname exe manifest  If so  you need to disable this possibly by manually altering the manifest  The external app may just try to load from DLLs in its own folder  even without a manifest  You will have to remove   rename these    With these steps taken care of  the version of the assembly running in the debugger should be correctly loaded and can be debugged normally

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My reason was deprecated Telerik OpenAccess ORM  Installed new version then it works  Must download and install  Only NuGet updating did not work  someone else also mentioned it

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In Visual Studio check   Build    Configuration Manager    Active solution configuration  If it is set to Release rather than Debug no breakpoints will be hit

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For me  the test class was annotated with  Ignore   I don t know why it was still showing up in the test explorer  but whatever  This is with the Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework

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Will put this here in the hope that it helps someone   I had the missing symbols issue with regards to a web service   The daft solution was that the setup project was not set to build when the solution was built  which meant that when I right clicked the setup project and installed the service  then attached to the process  the same out of date service was being installed without the pdb because it didn t match   no working breakpoints   The manual solution was to right click the setup project and build it  then install from it  I then altered the solution project build list to include the setup project when the solution is built in debug mode

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Also had this issue with a Qt  pro generated project  It turned out I forgot to set an environment variable which determines the properties general Output Directory  Trivial one  and one to look at in the first place  but sometimes we miss the obvious

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Disable the  Just My Code  option in the Debug General settings

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In my case this started happening after a Windows Update  turns out the windows update turned off Internet Information Services which was making it appear that my API was unable to hit the break-point that I had set  but what was actually happening was that IIS was failing to start and therefore my application code wasn t actually running    Double check that Internet Information Services is enabled in the Windows Features menu    Instructions for IIS     control panel Programs open or close windows features tick internet information services restart visual studio   If using IIS Express   Open  Add Remove Programs  from the old control panel and run a repair on IIS Express Or you might go Control Panel -   Programs -   Programs and Features -   Turn Windows features on or off -   Internet Information Services and check the parent Internet Information Services folder    I got this answer here  Specified argument was out of the range of valid values  Parameter name  site

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Try to do this  It worked for me   Debug  Options  General    Remove the check mark for  Enable Just My Code

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I had same problem  checked all the previous solutions but didn t work for me  Simple but added answer just to make sure people don t get stuck on this not to exist problem as I did   What worked for me was  I was running VS 2013 on admin mode and running on normal mode did the trick  Tried multiple times switching to normal and admin mode and its consistently working fine   IDE  VS 2013 Professional Version  12 0 40629 00 Update 5

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Try clean building your solution  Worked for me

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I tried all of the answers posted here and I did not work  For me the solution was to check  quot launch browser quot

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In my case  the problem was that I had added a new project component  and I forgot to Sign it  When other components in the solution are signed  your new ones need to be as well  So solution for me was to copy the snk-file  from another project  into the new projects folder  and then from project properties   Signing choose it  Another issue may be if the team is using different versions of VS or if someone is using Rider and some VS  they may use different casing on the project GUID

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I had same issue with Visual Studio 2019 community and Asp net Web form project  I spend 1 5 day and any of these 30 answers solved my problem  Finally I run the visual studio installer exe and select repair option  So my configuration was reset and problem is completely gone

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I ve done the clean and rebuild thing  That didn t work  it usually does   Now  I am attaching to w3wp before calling through the service  then let it call the service once  hit another breakpoint  then I change the point of execution so that it will run the same line  calling the service  again  then it actually stops at my breakpoint inside the service method

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Yet another tip that worked for me    If your project   library is signed  not even delay signed  it still may not be debuggable  Try disabling the signing option  debugging it  then restoring the signing option

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In my case  I was debugging a WPF extension using Visual Studio s Experimental Instance   After starting debugging and then pausing the dubugger  I opened the  Debug  gt  Windows  gt  Modules window  Form there  I could see the directory where Visual Studio was trying to load symbols C  Users  lt username gt  AppData Local Microsoft VisualStudio 15 0 76a9e536Exp Extensions  lt companyName gt    After stopping debugging  I deleted the target folder using Windows Explorer and restarted the debugger   Visual Studio was then able to hit the breakpoint

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I was able to fix the error by simply setting the option in the  Attach to Process  to  Automatically determine the type of code to debug  option as shown in the attached screenshot  Simply follow the steps below   Go to Debug from the menu bar Click on Attach to Process Near the Attach to option  click on the Select button The Select Code Type window will appear Now select the option Automatically determine the type of code to debug and click the OK button

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If we get the latest from VSTS  all files will be in read only mode  While running project all class library classes get read only and brakepoints turn empty and say  Breakpoint will not currently be hit  No symbols loaded for this document     Solution 1  Go to the project location and right lick the folder ---  Properties ---  General Tab ---  UNCHECK read-only  Only applies to files in the folder  ---  Apply ---  Ok  Solution 2  Start debugging  Go to Debug ---  Windows ---  Modules Select one assembly and Right-click ---   Select  Symbol Setting  Set Your Bin path in Cache symbol in this directory and select Microsoft Servers in Symbol of PDB location  Click Load All Symbols  It will take time Then click OK   Now the symbol status of all assembly has been changed from  can not find or open PDB  to  Symbols loaded

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Using Dependency Injection  Autofac in my case  to automatically resolve by scanning assemblies  One of the referenced assemblies was not getting resolved   My fix was to directly reference a class from the assembly to force Visual Studio to load the assembly  Just having the assembly as a reference will not load the assembly when the application runs

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In my case i am trying to debug in relase mode  Once i change it to debug mode  Its working

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For an ASP Net application  check the properties of the site  ASP NET tab   Ensure that the correct ASP NET version is selected

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This took me a while tried other options above and for some strange reason debugging stopped working      Tool -  Options -  Debugging -  General -   untick   Require source files to exactly match the original version  option

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Debug - gt Options - gt  General - gt  Uncheck mark for  Enable Just My Code   This worked for me

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Project Properties  then select your build config    Build Tab   Advanced      Debug Info  dropdown   Set to  all  or  pdb-only  then rebuild

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Clean solution and Rebuild Check the configuration is set to Debug Make sure that the PDB file is in the Debug folder it self From Debug menu click Enable All Break points

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I also had the same issue what I rebuild the whole solution  including refereced projects  in x86  or x64   Even though I set all of my projects to x86 from Configuration Manager  Build- ConfigManager  some of my projects were not set to x86   So Just to make sure right click on the project and follow      project -  properties -  Debug Tab  verify Configuration and Platform

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Project   Properties   C     General   Debug Information Format - Program Database   Zi   I had checked Linker   Debugging and was already generating debug info  When I launched the application  symbols were loaded  Debug   Windows   Modules   Setting the Debug Information Format fixed it for me  Hope this helps someone

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For me      Open solution properties Select  Common Properties   Debug Source Files  In the  Do not look for these source files  window  remove the files that are almost certainly there erroneously

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The selected answer led me to fix my problem  But I need to do a few things more   Even with  Debug  selected in the dropdown     And in the project Properties   Build     The Visual Studio was not loading symbols to a specific project  So in that dropdown I select  Configuration Manager  and saw that the settings to my web project was incorrect       Then I set that to  Debug  and it started to generate the  pdb file   BUT I need to manually copy the PDB and DLL and put in the folder that VS was looking  here is where the selected answer helped me

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Check if in the csproj file there is a line entry with the   lt DebugType gt Full lt  DebugType gt   If it exists then try remove it and try again to debug

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I test all answers for this question not work for me  I use this below method      I exclude that file s  has breakpoints from project where that visual   studio can t hits them and then I includes them into my project and   worked breakpoints

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There are many answers with many different solutions to fix this issue   Another solution is to make sure that your code is reachable   For example   Any code that is added after a Return  in a function  Adding a GOTO that effectively skips your code that has the break point   I m not saying these are normal but they are also causes

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Try running visual studio as an administrator within windows

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I ended up tracing my issue back to an apparent incompatibility issue with using multiple PostSharp versions   The app I was attempting to debug had a previous version of PostSharp but was referencing a project which was using a more recent version  and for one reason or another this resulted in VS refusing to generate the PDB file for specifically that app  all other DLLs were loading their debug symbols fine    The solution was to update PostSharp within each project to the most recent version and recompile

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None of those answers solved my problem  I tried another thing based on fact that the project with the stop wasn t in reality the loaded project  I found as Hans Passant wrote that the  dll where I want to stop debugger and the associoated  pdb files where copied near the  exe file  Those files have had an older date so I thought they wasn t updated in the runtime  I manually deleted them  Visual Studio create another pair AND put this new pair near the  exe  Now the breakpoins works    Maybe Visual Studio cannot copy and REPLACE existing files   dll and  pdb  near the  exe since there are another there  So if I deleted manually then VS could create new one near  exe   I think that another changes  checks and so on - from the another answers  triggered something and Visual Studio copied and replaced the dll and pdb from the project folder to the folder near the exe  so that was a solution   I think that the root cause of the problem is that the Visual Studio use another file in runtime  no the file from the project  with the stop   Maybe this answer to help someone

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Mine was missing mainly because I had 2 projects parked to the same IISExpress URL  make sure you specify a different port and hit CreateVirtualDirectory

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Cross posting this fix from Hans K that I found on the similar thread    HERE  lt  lt       Right click on solution --  Properties      Look under Common Properties --  Startup Project      Select multiple startup projects      select Start action on the projects you need to debug

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Things to check just to be clear  Make sure you have the configuration set to  Debug  and not  Release   You can debug the startup project in  Release  mode  but not a referenced class library

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In my case  none of these solutions worked  I had to go to      Tools -  Import and Export Settings -  Reset all settings    and then debugging started working without any issues

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