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Archive PDB files for each version

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Archive PDB files for each version

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- [Instructor] What we'll look at next is how to take a saved iTrace file and open it in Visual Studio and look at the metadata stored in there, and also start a historical debug session. Now to make this work, we have to have the source control for the application at the time that we did the trace. And we also have to have the PDB file at the time we did the trace. So what I've done to prepare for this is I went and opened this Branch in Source Control, 01-08, which is this application. This is the one that calculates the loan payments when you click on the button and handle some exceptions. So I ran that, which gave me the iTrace file. And then I went out to my hard drive and opened this debug folder. And I took the PDB files that are in here and I copied them to another location on my hard drive. So I have an archive that's over here on my desktop. I have branch 0108 and inside that I've got my trace file, and I've got…

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