How to find the pdb or dll location for symbols you have already loaded?

Question

If I am debugging something in Visual Studio, and I am looking through the call stack, and some code in the stack is external code, and I click to Load Symbols for that code, and the symbols load, and I can now browse through the source code... where on my file system is the pdb that those symbols were loaded from?

Regardless of which symbol server those symbols are loaded from, as far as I am aware, there has to be a file somewhere on my file system that is storing a pdb or dll or similar that allowed Visual Studio to decompile the source code.

Where can I find this?

Debug > Windows > Modules. Right-click the DLL in that list > Symbol Load Information shows where the PDB came from. — Hans Passant, Aug 02 '22 at 15:26
Does Hans' answer solve your problem? Or any update about the issue? — Jingmiao Xu-MSFT, Aug 03 '22 at 06:35
@HansPassant answer does indeed solve my problem. He should put it as an answer — NotAPro, Aug 03 '22 at 14:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '22 at 20:33

You can actually also find the loaded symbol files/pdb under the External Sources folder in Solution Explorer. This is available for Visual Studio 22.

read here : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/debugging-external-sources-with-visual-studio/

How to find the pdb or dll location for symbols you have already loaded?

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