Symbols for VBA6.DLL?!
Hello!
Might be little off topic, but I don't really know where else to ask.
I'll appriciate any help...
I am in need of debugging VBA6.DLL(I have VS6+SP6) so I examined VBA6.DLL
a bit and discovered that it contains debug information...
Great, I'll finish in minutes, I thought, but I should have known better...
So I fired up a WinDbg(6.4.0007.0) and tried to retreive symbols from
Microsoft's symbol server(it'shttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols)
with.reload /f /s vba6.dll
I was lucky, symbols were there(old format but there) so I got my self a VBA6.DBG.
And, there lies a real problem.
VBA6.DBGpoints to VBA6.PDB(in CODEVIEW section of VBA6.DBG) so WinDBG
tries to download VBA6.PDB but it doesn't exists...
Characteristics of VBA6.Dll are these(in case that helps):
Size: 1,696,528 bytes
Version: 6.0.0.9782
Time stamp: 403AD081
Size of image: 001A3000
Could someone help?
Regards
Hm, do you maybe know who from Microsoft can I ask to upload this VBA6.PDB to
Microsoft's symbol server? Maybe email, forum, newsgroup... Anything.
Thank you.
Hi,
I'm not sure if it will help or not, but I got the following response from our support engineer.
Our customer has setup right path of the symbol server. If he could not get the symbols from the server, it means the symbol is not published from the server. It is not public.
The DBG file is another format of debug information. You can get detailed information from the web. Description of the .PDB files and of the .DBG files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;[LN];121366
-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)
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Thank you very much for your help Brenda. It's much appreciated...
Confusion was only because .dbg file redirects WinDbg to look elsewhere
for symbols and not being able to find it...
At least it's clear now that symbol file is not published.
Once more, thank you for your efforts.
Is there any update on this brenda. I am having extreme problems with VBA6 and it is crashing all the time for me.
It crashes for example when I hit the stop/reset button in the VBA IDE. If I knew what was causing the crash I could remove the offending modules from my code, but I cannot do this without more information about where the crash originates and for that I need some symbol information, or something more to debug with.
Thanks
Tom
