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Configure debug symbols path

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Configure debug symbols path

- [Instructor] When you open an itrace file, you'll be able to see the metadata for that itrace session, and you'll also be able to invoke a historical debug session, and when you do that, it's going to look for the appropriate pdb file. Now in my case, I have moved those two separate pdb files to separate archive folders, so Visual Studio won't be able to find the matching pdb file that matches the itrace file. So I need to be preemptive and tell it where to find those pdb files. Though the good news is if you don't do it ahead of time, and you start a historical debug session, it'll prompt you and ask you for the location. But here's how you can do it ahead of time. Go to Debugging, Symbols, and here's all the probing paths that Visual Studio uses to find pdb files. So it'll look on Microsoft Symbol Servers, that's the first place it looks, then it goes to NuGet.org, and then in my case I've added these two extra paths…

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