Where is symbol server utility located in Visual Studio?

Question

I installed Visual Studio v120 into "D:\\dev\\visualstudio" because I need SDK tools installed inside "no spaces dir", now I'm having problem to locate a utility that is used to check Microsoft Symbols server.

What is the name of utility? and where is it located? I need to find it in order to allow outbound firewall rule.

I tried searching for "symchk" but there is no such file, is it renamed?

Answer 1

I apologize for answering my own question but, I managed to find this :

Debugging environments

After you install Visual Studio and the WDK, you'll have six available debugging environments. All of these debugging environments provide user interfaces for the same underlying debugging engine, which is implemented in dbgeng.dll. This debugging engine is called the Windows debugger, and the six debugging environments are collectively called the Windows debuggers.

Note Visual Studio includes its own debugging environment and debugging engine, which together are called the Visual Studio debugger. The Visual Studio debugger is completely different from Windows debugger.

Obviously what I'm missing here is Windows debugging tools ^^ Visual Studio debugger can not download symbols.

Answer 2

Microsoft debuggers tend to use symbol paths to attempt to resolve symbols in a binary. Full documentation can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh448108.aspx

Examine the relative section.