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Mike McPhee
is there a debugger API for .NET.

I need to be able to read a .net assembly for analysis and when I need to
report something about it
I need to point to the line of code when the .pdb file is present.

Is there a way to interace with .pdb files?
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Niki Estner
I think the System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore contains classes to read debug
information. AFAIK "real" debugging isn't possible from within the .net
framework - the framework provides COM interfaces for taht purpose that may
be accessed from C++. I really don't know much more than this, but the
cordbg command line debugger is available as a sample project in the "tool
developer's guide". Might be worth a look.

Niki

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Mike McPhee
I found out that I can use the ISymWrapper but I can't seem to figure out
how to create an instance of
SymBinder. I saw that someone else had similar issues. See

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=5725b37ff3c3db35&seekm=d214d399.0310052206.41b4d8e8%40posting.google.com#link2

Someone from microsoft provided a "solution" which is

IMetaDataDispenser mdd =
(IMetaDataDispenser)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(
new Guid("e5cb7a31-7512-11d2-89ce-0080c792e5d8")));

Guid IID_IMetadataImport = new
Guid("7DAC8207-D3AE-4c75-9B67-92801A497D44");
IntPtr importer;
mdd.OpenScope(fn, 0, ref IID_IMetadataImport, out importer);but it
fails on me saying can't create interface.

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Jonathan Keljo [MS] (VIP)
That code snippet should work. I've attached a more complete sample.

Jonathan

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System.Activator
System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore.SymBinder
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System.IntPtr
System.Type




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