How to: Use Symbol Servers

To use a symbol server, you must specify the correct server path to your project.

Note

This setting has no impact on existing reports. Only reports created after specifying the symbol server will have the symbol information.

To use symbol server from Microsoft

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

    The Options dialog box appears.

  2. Expand the Debugging tree, and then click Symbols.

  3. In the Symbol file (.pdb) locations, add the path to the symbol server as shown:

    https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

  4. In the Cache symbols from the symbol server to this directory, type the path to an existing folder as shown:

    c:\cache

  5. Select the Load symbols using the updated settings when the dialog is closed check box.

  6. Click OK.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Serialize Symbol Information

Other Resources

Installing System Debug Symbols