The BreakPoint will not currently be hit . no symbols have been loaded for this document

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I am facing the following message while trying to debug my code:

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.

I have VS 2008 and SharePoint 2007. Whenever I change my code and attach to w3wp.exe process I cant hit any breakpoint, although I:

  • deployed the built DLLs to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
  • recycled the IIS Application pool
  • restarted the IIS
  • restarted my Server
  • restarted my IDE (VS)

but unfortunately none of the above solved the issue.

Please advise.

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sharepointvisual-studio-2008sharepoint-2007
Make sure you are building your solution in Debug mode rather than release mode - Madhur Ahuja
Thank You Madhur for your response , I checked the solution , and all DLLs are built in debug mode . - qablan89

1 Answers

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I have two suggestions:

  1. Delete the solution .pdb file and then rebuild the solution - I've sometimes found that this can help when the debugger is not hitting breakpoints.

  2. Make sure you attaching to the correct w3wp process. I often have 2 or 3 on my dev pc. To be sure just attach to all of them.