100000x this. While trying to track down a memory leak I discovered that while pretty much any guide out there on the internet points to using WinDg and referen

100000x this. While trying to track down a memory leak I discovered that while pretty much any guide out there on the internet points to using WinDg and referencing a Microsoft site for the symbol files, the .pdb doesn't actually exist. As far as I can tell the symbol files got removed with one of the 4.5.x releases, and as early as June people were asking about them: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/expression/en-US/7bc17ae3-6480-439c-bec4-66be22dcfe02/obtaining-debug-symbol-pdb-files-for-net-framework-452?forum=clr https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/expression/en-US/7b... Still no word... I'm no debugging expert, but it seems like you're SOL if you want to find a leak within managed code.