No Symbols Loaded error in C#

[JV]

Hi All,

I am new to C# and I am having trouble compiling and running code. I
have the code written (it was just an example that I took) and I run
it, it gives me No Symbols loaded error as below.
Please let me know what is that I am doing wrong.

'DefaultDomain': Loaded
'c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll', No symbols
loaded.
'TestSample': Loaded 'C:\Documents and Settings\jayar\My
Documents\Visual Studio
Projects\TestSample\TestSample\bin\Debug\TestSample.exe', Symbols
loaded.
The program '[3320] TestSample.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

 

[Kevin Spencer]

There is no error in what you posted. "No symbols loaded" simply means that
debugging symbols were not loaded for a specific assembly. This is normal,
if the assembly was not compiled with debugging symbols.

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Kevin Spencer
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[Barry Kelly]

There is no error in what you posted. "No symbols loaded" simply means that
debugging symbols were not loaded for a specific assembly. This is normal,
if the assembly was not compiled with debugging symbols.

Of course, mscorlib.dll has symbols in mscorlib.pdb, if it's on your
symbol path. The Symbols pack for Windows currently only has
mscorlib.pdb for .NET 1.1. You have to enable symbol server support with


SRV*C:\cygwin\opt\var\ms-symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

or some such to get those symbols. Those symbols are necessary for
low-level debugging such as using SOS in WinDbg / VS8 immediate window.

-- Barry

 

[Guest]

No Symbols loaded is not an error. It's just informing you that no symbols
were loaded for that dll. That's fine and normal.

From the output shown below, it says that your program started up, loaded
the required dlls, executed itself, and completed. That's what you want.

What did your program do? Did it have a form on it or was it a console
application? If it had a form did the form appear? If it was a console
application and was fairly small, it may have appeared to never have run when
it actually did. To pause it during execution, either throw a breakpoint in
your code, or have the console ask for user input as the last line of code.
It will wait for the user to type before exiting.

Otherwise, post the code that you got and we can look to see if there's any
problems with it. But the point is, don't be nervous by the output that you
pasted below.