No Symbols Loaded - Debugging on Vista

I must be doing something wrong but I can't get debugging to work.  I've set

<%@ CodeTemplate src="TemplateLib/CommonSqlCode.cs" mce_src="TemplateLib/CommonSqlCode.cs" Inherits="MoM.Templates.CommonSqlCode" Language="C#" TargetLanguage="Text" Description="NetTiers main template." Debug="True" ResponseEncoding="UTF-8"%>

I've added a Debugger.Break(); and I've changed the DbgJITDebugLaunchSetting to 2 so that I immediately get to choose my debugger.  I've tried both VS.Net and the CLR debugger but in both I get a message that no symbols are loaded so I can only show the disassembly.

Any tips?

Are you running 32bit Vista or 64bit Vista?  Can you provide a screenshot of the error that occurs when you attempt to debug?

32 Bit Vista Business Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000.

When breakpoint is hit I immedately get the expected dialog which allows me to select the debugger.  In this case I used the CLR Debugger.  Then I get the attached dialog.  Expereince is exactly the same if I choose VS.Net as the debugger.  Thanks for looking into this.

I received the same error on XP.

 For me I needed to manually open the relevant source files within the debugger. 

Once the debug triggers let it open the dissassembly

I don't know why it fails to load them automatically but once you load the files into the environment it should step through

I tried manually loading the .cst into the debugger environment, but that didn't work for me. It only displayed the source code just as it would any other text file, but ignored me when I asked it to "show next statement." How can I get debugging working and get past this silly "No symbols loaded" error?

Well, I finally figured out how to resolve this.  You need to change the default editor in VS for .cst files to be the VS text editor instead of CodeSmith Studio.  Really crazy, but it works.  I will add this to the help file and to the debugging blog post.

Eric,

Can you explain how to set up this default editor? I cannot debug in the beta because of this. Are you talking about Tools\Options\Text Editor\File Extension?

Thanks, Lars

Hello,

Yes, You would set this in the "Tools\Options\Text Editor\File Extension" dialog box. Put cst in the Extension box and select Source Code (Text) Editor With Encoding in the drop down.

Thanks

-Blake Niemyjski