.NET Remote Symbol Loading Changes in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
Oct 16, 2013Andrew Chan - MSFT
Summary
This post details changes in .NET remote symbol loading for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. VS2010 required PDBs on the remote machine. VS2012 and 2013 load PDBs locally by default. It introduces registry exceptions for specific remote PDB loading scenarios and the /FallbackLoadRemoteManagedPdbs flag in VS2013 Update 2.