Visual Studio 不会将 .pdb 文件复制到 Appx 文件夹中

Question

I was debugging a UWP app. I found that the exception stack trace doesn't contain the line numbers. After a lot of tests, I found that the.pdb file doesn't be copied to the Appx folder. Maybe, it's the root issue. How to deal with this issue?

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017 Version 15.9.4

Answer 1

Just handle your issue that how to add pdb files into appx folder.

There are two ways:

1) MSBuild by default removes all the pdb files during the generation of the appx. You can add this xml node under app.csproj file to enable that.

<PropertyGroup>
        <AppxPackageIncludePrivateSymbols>true</AppxPackageIncludePrivateSymbols>
</PropertyGroup>

2) You could embed the pdb file into the exe file so that the debugging info will act with the exe without worrying about losing a separate pdb file.

Right-click on the Project Properties --> Build --> Advanced -->change Debug Information to Embedded .