Get the right .net native symbols for Windbg

Question

I\'m doing some crash dump debugging, where I am looking a dump taken from a production server. The machine I\'m running WinDbg on must have a slightly different version of

Answer 1

You can have WINDBG download the official symbols from Microsoft Servers by running the following command:

.sympath srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
.reload /f

This will store the symbols downloaded from the server in a local cache at C:\Symbols and then force a reload of the symbols for all currently loaded modules.