symstore

The Question There are plenty of manual ways to make WinDBG find mscordacwks.dll without a symbol store (putting the file in the path somewhere, putting it in the same folder as windbg.exe, putting it in my Framework\v folder, specifying the path in WinDBG using .cordll -lp c:\dacFolder , etc.), but they all only fix it for me . I need to fix it more generally for everyone who uses my symbol store . The possible solutions I can imagine are: WinDBG be made to check the symbol store using mscordacwks.dll's subfolder name instead of mscorwks.dll's folder name. SymStore.exe be made to add

I am trying to figure out what hashing algorithm is used for the Microsoft Symbol Local Cache directory. For example, the local cache can be something like the following L:\Symbols \browseui.dll \44FBC679fe000 browsue.dll \browseui.pdb \44F402F62 browseui.pdb \explorer.exe \3EBF1F14f7000 explorer.exe \explorer.pdb \3EBF1F141 explorer.pdb \msvcr71.pdb \60D915C6AB6A4F3586E9096E2F8856482 msvcr71.pdb There seems to be some sort of correspondence between a file and its debug database. Other than that, I can’t figure out how the names of these (presumably) hexadecimal string folders are being