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content  Using PDB files and symbols to debug your application
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vote: x Votes of 3 or less require a comment   Errare humanum
est (Latin for "to err is human") is a well known proverb which
is applicable in nearly every aspect of life. You probably won't
be able to find a programmer who has never encountered an error
when running a program and has searched for ages to find the
cause of it. Today, where code is often widely spread or even
outsourced to the Cloud (think of Windows Azure, for example),
this task gets even more complicated. That is the reason why
efforts were always made to find mechanics that simplify
debugging. When working with C++, there is also another problem
that makes error finding very hard. After compilation, there is
nothing left that lets us map an error onto a particular line of
source code or even to a certain function. All names are "lost".
With PDB files,