A matching symbol file was not found (Cannot find/open pdb file)

debug-symbolspdb-filesvisual-studio-2013

The debug point is not getting enabled when this module gets loaded. So I thought of manually loading its debug symbols .pdb file from "Debug/obj" folder.

In this case I am getting below error "A matching symbol" file was not found in this folder though that folder contains currently build file.

And also the "Symbol Load Information" contains these many directory paths.

Cannot find or open the PDB file.

PDB does not match 

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Best Answer

This problem is fixed by the following steps-

1) Close all the instances of VISUAL STUDIO if running and open a single instance of Visual Studio

2) Close the solution (nothing but your project) If it's already open and then re-open again

3) Clean the whole project and rebuild it.

4) and also build the project if you are getting any errors like "___.dll not found"

5) Now you are good to go and run your project