Symbol packages?

[poizan42]

Are there symbols available anywhere for the NuGet packages?

If not could they be included for builds in the future? There's some information about how to do that at

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/symbol-packages
• http://www.symbolsource.org/Public/Wiki/Publishing

[mookid8000]

That's definitely something to consider.

I have never really missed symbol packages myself, because I use R# and let it decompile classes/methods by default, but I can definitely see how including the actual source would be a great service to developers.

[poizan42]

What is R#? Not this I guess and not this either.

Anyways, while there are some plugins for VS that allows stepping through decompiled source, it really is a much nicer experience if you can just step into the original source.

But besides source-level stepping the pdb files are also necessary to get line numbers in stack traces which can help a lot in debugging.

[mookid8000]

ReSharper: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ 😄

but I didn't know that symbol packages allowed for stepping into the source code – that's pretty neat!

[mookid8000]

fixed by #731 – good work 👍