PDB fails to load about mradvice

[rgroenewoudt]

Well, good news. I just spent 10 minutes updating dnlib to latest nuget (previous version was from 2020) in the Stitcherboy project and put the binaries in MrAdvice locally and debugging now works 👍

I can make a PR for you in https://github.com/picrap/StitcherBoy.

[rgroenewoudt]

Confirmed, the problem is fixed

[picrap]

Hi,

as far as I remember, this is related to PDB format. You can change it in build properties. Another PDB format may work.
Sorry for blurry answer.
Let me know!

[rgroenewoudt]

Well, the results are interesting. I've tried the DebugType options

• default/portable: Fails for the specific project
• embedded: Also fails for the specific project. Other projects load fine and indicate embedded in VS.
• full: Works :)

My guess is that MrAdvice corrupts the new portable pdb in a rare case.
If I try the tool sourcelink with command sourcelink print-urls pdb-file, it works for other projects but fails with error "Read out of bounds." for the specific project. I'm cannot find any other tools to validate the portable-pdb-format.

[picrap]

MrAdvice is based on dnlib (https://github.com/0xd4d/dnlib) wich does the dirty work with PDB, so unfortunately this is not something I am comfortable with.
If one day there is something similar directly in dotnet, it may be worth trying to port it.

[picrap]

That would be great! I’ll update MrAdvice after this. Thank you.

[picrap]

MrAdvice 2.15 is out! Let me know.