Re: Use of debugging symbol server

Hi George,

Since you need to debug multiple versions of your applications, it would be
efficient for you to create an symbol store/server for your own products.
Once you have both the symbol server for your own products and the
Microsoft public symbol server, VS debugger would be smart enough to look
up the correct symbols for various modules. Also, it would be helpful to
setup the source code server if you need source-level debugging.

In addition to Scot's reply, I would add another good site and articles:
"Minidumps and matching modules"
http://www.debuginfo.com/articles/matchmodules.html

This article talks about the module binaries search issue for the minidump.
It also introduces a cool ModuleRescue to help us debug the minidump if no
binaries are available. This site is also contains really cool information
for debugging.

Another one is written by Microsoft Visual Studio developer "Andy Pennell",
although it is written for VS.net2003:
"Post-Mortem Debugging Your Application with Minidumps and Visual Studio
..NET"
http://www.codeproject.com/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.asp

Finally, the most complete document regarding symbol server, source server
is the windbg help document(VS debugger leverages the windbg's dbghelp.dll
to implement the symbol handler function). You may download the windbg from
the link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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