Symbols and You

re: Symbols and You

Ed Zielinski — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:03:15 GMT

Thanks for the details on this - so many of the debugging documents mention them but this makes it quite clear how they work.

Also - a question - when you point to a symbol server, is it going to use IE with the default settings of your current profile or will it use winhttp? The reason I ask is that if reaching the symbol server depends on your IE proxy settings for example, you have to make sure to configure them before pointing to the symbol server.

re: Symbols and You

molotov — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:38:12 GMT

Hi Ed,

I wonder if "Firewalls and Proxy Servers" in Debugger.chm from the Debugging Tools for Windows will address your inquiry (same content online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc266481.aspx).

re: Symbols and You

BeDatzoot — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:31:03 GMT

I tried combining a directory with a server as follows:

C:\WINNT\Symbols;SRV*\\shed\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

But this doesn't seem to work, am I missing something here? Isn't it possible to mix a server with a static directory?

re: Symbols and You

molotov — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:20:52 GMT

Hi BeDatzoot,

Wonder if you could use DBGHELP_LOG logging (Symbol Loading (Windows) @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680687(VS.85).aspx) to see what may be going on?