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

I have fixed my debug symbols, forcing them to match using this tool:

chkmatch tool

So, my problem was I was trying to debug my project and the debugger couldn't step-in to the in-house nugets sources. I had the source files of the nuget project. Still the visual studio didn't accept the pdb files I was trying to show it to. Showing exact same error:

a matching symbol file was not found in this folder

So, what I did was I added this to the .proj file of the nugets project:

full

And created the dll and pdb file again using the rebuild option. In the command line I ran:

.\ChkMatch.exe -m name_of_your.dll name_of_your.pdb    

It said this:

Writing to the debug information file... Result: Success.

Great success! So, next, I referenced this dll instead to the proj I was trying to debug. I worked when I tried to load the symbol again.

Hope it helps.