stepping throught the .net source code

[John]

Hi all,

i've tried to set up my environment (windows 7 ultimate + .net 3.5
sp1) to download the source code so I can step into this code, but no
matter what I tried (manually downloading the symbols and
automatically), I cannot get it to work..

Has anyone got this to work?

I followed the steps from this tutorial:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archiv...tudio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx

TIA,
John.

 

[Peter Duniho]

Hi all,

i've tried to set up my environment (windows 7 ultimate + .net 3.5
sp1) to download the source code so I can step into this code, but no
matter what I tried (manually downloading the symbols and
automatically), I cannot get it to work..

Me either.

Here is a message thread on MSDN that has some information on the issue:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...r/thread/c161b368-5fc6-4fa9-9bea-df3c73d8c101

The short version: Microsoft has not kept the source database up-to-date
as .NET has been updated. The only way to get it to work is to downgrade
your .NET to the same versions that match the source code that's
available. Furthermore, finding out what version of a .NET component goes
with a given set of source code and symbols is non-trivial.

I haven't had enough time to sit down and really work things through; if I
believe that message thread (and I haven't had any reason not to), there's
not really much I can do and still work with the latest .NET. So, I've
pretty much just reverted back to inspecting .NET implementation via
Reflector when necessary, without any debugging support.

Pete

 

[John]

thanx Peter.

back 2 reflector i guess.

its a good thing thing that the newsgroups are still responsive

greets,
john