“The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.” – .pdb loaded from wrong place

asp.netbreakpointsdebuggingvisual studio 2010

I had the famous “The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.” – problem and was inspired by this thread:

I started the debugger, opened Debug -> Window -> Modules, right-click on the assembly -> Symbol Load Information. It points to a strange spot:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files{myProjectFolder}\8df46672\bbaeb99e\assembly\dl3\c29c5e19\aa46dcf7_10dccc01{myProject}.pdb: Symbols loaded.`

It fixed the problem for me temporarely when I deleted {myProjectFolder}. But it still points to this .pdb – file (VS recreates the temporary folder after deleting). I guess it should point to the .pdb in the bin-directory though, as it does in other assemblies. How am I supposed to fix this? Or is this a normal behaviour?

Thx for any tipps…

Edit: It is an ASP.NET – Project (.NET 4.0), MVC 3. No COM-libraries included so far. I have now deleted the above mentioned directory again, and ended up once again with “The breakpoint will not currently …". If I open the Modules-window, Symbol Status shows "Skipped loading simbols." for all assemblies, except for App_global.asax.exot9a5x.dll.

Edit 2: The website is configured to run on the local IIS 7. If I change to Visual Studio Development Server, debugging works fine. Seems to be related with IIS?

Best Answer

Turns out that I had set the configuration to Release when I started the debugger. When I change it to Debug, it works as expected!