I've done a little more work with adding source stream information to
pdb files. As it turns out visual studio only uses the source server
functionality during debugging. It is too stupid to use it outside of
the debugger. So unlike most Java IDE's which can navigate into the
source code of referenced libraries (as long as the source jars are
provided), Visual Studio can only step into the source code of a
referenced library when debugging.
Assuming the hooks are there, a VS addin could probably add this
functionality.
On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:27 PM, James Carpenter wrote:
> Creation of the source stream to insert into the pdb files requires
> an understanding of which source files are associated with a given
> class/type in the associated assembly. Unlike Java, C# does not
> require the directory/filename structure to match the namespace/
> classname. Is this information available as output from csc? Is
> there a utility in nmaven which already understands this association?
>
> Although I haven't looked closely, I believe the perl files which
> come with srcsrv are doing a simple search of the source files.
> Generically speaking it would be much better to use information
> output by the relevant .NET compiler.
Sincerely,
James Carpenter
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