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Default VS symbol loading mechanism does not work

See original GitHub issue

Description

pdbs should be published in a way which is easily consumable with VS default Symbol server, respective with SourceLink.
Currently it’s not easy/obvious to comsune the pdbs.

Steps to Reproduce

create a maui app via VS 17.4 Preview 3
update target-framework to net7 in csproj
enable default symbol servers
uncheck “just my code”
start maui app
open modules window
select microsoft.maui.controls.dll
rightclick -> “load symbols”

Expected Result: symbols are loaded (from nuget or symbol server)

Actual Result: no symbols can be loaded, because none are found

Link to public reproduction project repository

n/a

Version with bug

assembly-version: 7.00.0.269

Last version that worked well

i think, it never worked in maui.

Affected platforms

iOS, Android, Windows, macOS

Affected platform versions

assembly-version: 7.00.0.269

Did you find any workaround?

manually select the pdb from C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Runtime.win\7.0.0-rc.1.6683\lib\net7.0-windows10.0.19041

Relevant log output

C:\Users\juwens\source\repos\MauiAppValueTypeConversionExample\MauiAppMassConversionExample\bin\Debug\net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0\win10-x64\AppX\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Users\juwens\source\repos\MauiAppValueTypeConversionExample\MauiAppMassConversionExample\bin\Debug\net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0\win10-x64\AppX\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Controls\src\Core\obj\Release\net7.0-windows10.0.19041\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\c6f2c1b347ce4b3183e4848f501c9a2cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\c6f2c1b347ce4b3183e4848f501c9a2cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\c6f2c1b347ce4b3183e4848f501c9a2c1\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\MicrosoftPublicSymbols\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\c6f2c1b347ce4b3183e4848f501c9a2c1\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb: Cannot find or open the PDB file.
SYMSRV:  BYINDEX: 0x29
         C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache*https://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols
         Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
         C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff


SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb - path not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_ - path not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\file.ptr - path not found
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/file.ptr
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  RESULT: 0x80190194
SYMSRV:  BYINDEX: 0x2A
         C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache*https://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols
         Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
         C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb - file not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_ - file not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1\file.ptr - file not found
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2C1/file.ptr
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  RESULT: 0x80190194

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols: Symbols not found on symbol server.
https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols: Skipped checking location. A stripped symbol file was previously found in this location.
SYMSRV:  BYINDEX: 0x2B
         C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache*https://symbols.nuget.org/download/symbols
         Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
         C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff


SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb - path not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_ - path not found
SYMSRV:  UNC: C:\Users\juwens\AppData\Local\Temp\SymbolCache\Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb\C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff\file.ptr - path not found
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /download/symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /download/symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pd_
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  HTTPGET: /download/symbols/Microsoft.Maui.Controls.pdb/C6F2C1B347CE4B3183E4848F501C9A2Cffffffff/file.ptr
SYMSRV:  HttpQueryInfo: 80190194 - HTTP_STATUS_NOT_FOUND
SYMSRV:  RESULT: 0x80190194


https://symbols.nuget.org/download/symbols: Symbols not found on symbol server.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:3
Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

drasticactionscommented, Oct 17, 2022

@PureWeen This is not a VS issue, the MAUI symbols are not published to Nuget, making it very hard to debug when MAUI itself throws an error.

@juwens the PDBs are included within the nuget package itself. If you go to your nuget cache you should be able to find them for all the MAUI packages and can load them manually. I do agree that they should be published to nuget itself as well though, since that would be more accessible for everyone.

2reactions

mstefarovcommented, Jun 6, 2023

I tried loading MAUI symbols for my app and found it very frustrating. Out-of-the-box, VisualStudio cannot find any symbols. The “Modules” window fails to show which version of the DLL is actually in use:

I searched my “workloads” folder and found over 50 potential matches – none of them actually matched though, wasting my time.

Next, I search my nuget cache – found a few candidates, debugger wouldn’t load any of them.

Next, I found more PDBs in my intermediate-output folder. Great, I thought, this must be it. Nope, VisualStudio again reports a mismatch.

So, having wasted 30 minutes of my time, I give up. I wanted to contribute to MAUI by debugging a problem and writing a helpful bug report but I can’t.

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