a matching symbol file was not found in this folder

Question

I want to use debug symbols, but I am receiving the following error:

a matching symbol file was not found in this folder

What

Answer 1

The error I got was "a matching symbol file was not found in this folder" in the Debug => Modules window even after both the DLL and PDB were available and built together, so I was unable to debug into the target DLL referenced by my main project.

Posting this here in case it helps someone browsing with "Mixed Platform" build for target DLL. I did two things to get past this:

1. In the solution using the target DLL, Uncheck "Just My Code" in Tools => Options => Debugging => General => Enable Just My Code (JMC).

2. Check "Enable native code debugging" in target DLL solution in relevant Project Properties => Debug.