Wednesday, October 14, 2009

VS Debugger: No Source Code Available for the Current Location

When the Visual Studio debugger can't find the source for your code, it will prompt for a location. If you make the mistake of hitting "cancel" on that dialog, it will mark it down on the solution properties under "do not look for these source files". If it's not removed from that list, then the debugger will display the "No Source Code Available for the Current Location" dialog box while you pull your hair out.

This helped: MSDN article about the dialog box. (Found this reference through this forum.)

Look at the solution properties. Under "Common Properties," go to "Debug Source Files". Look in the "Do not look for these source files" box and remove the source file that it's having issues with. While you're at it, add directories as needed in the "Directories containing source code" box.

(this refers to VS2008)

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