September 11, 2006
@ 01:54 PM
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Go To Definition < PDBs

I just recently started using my own build of Castle.*, built with PDBs and not strong named, so I can step into the source code and understand better how it works.

I find it interesting that before I had PDBs, I could Go To Definition at design time and see the public interface of any Castle.* (or any other really) type - one of my favorite new features in VS2005.

However, now that I have PDBs, I sometimes start debugging as a short cut to go see the source code - the PDBs know where the source code is, but G To Definition doesn't.


 
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:43:13 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
You can make "Go To Definition" work by adding the projects to your solution and referencing the project rather than a DLL.
Jay R. Wren
Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:34:36 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
True, Jay, but in this case, I would end up having to add a bunch of projects, and I just didn't want to do that. It's too bad it can't just use the PDB. Thanks for the tip!
cbilson@pobox.com (Chris Bilson)
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