How can I extract the pdb file of the main assembly? I can't find it

[Gil Eliyahu]

Hi, according to what I read, this should include the pdb file of the main assembly.
I need to extract it in order to debug the crash dumps I have ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using-dump-files?view=vs-2019#BKMK_Find_binaries__symbol___pdb__files__and_source_files ).

But I can't figure out how to get it...

I tried this line for start:

Application.ResourceAssembly.GetManifestResourceNames();

And it returned the following output:

{string[30]}
    [0]: "WindowTop.g.resources"
    [1]: "WindowTop.languages.txd"
    [2]: "costura.costura.dll.compressed"
    [3]: "costura.costura.pdb.compressed"
    [4]: "costura.fontawesome.wpf.dll.compressed"
    [5]: "costura.interop.uiautomationclient.dll.compressed"
    [6]: "costura.microsoft.bcl.asyncinterfaces.dll.compressed"
    [7]: "costura.microsoft.xaml.behaviors.dll.compressed"
    [8]: "costura.microsoft.xaml.behaviors.pdb.compressed"
    [9]: "costura.modernwpf.controls.dll.compressed"
    [10]: "costura.modernwpf.dll.compressed"
    [11]: "costura.nlog.dll.compressed"
    [12]: "costura.colorpicker.dll.compressed"
    [13]: "costura.system.buffers.dll.compressed"
    [14]: "costura.system.diagnostics.diagnosticsource.dll.compressed"
    [15]: "costura.system.memory.dll.compressed"
    [16]: "costura.system.numerics.vectors.dll.compressed"
    [17]: "costura.system.runtime.compilerservices.unsafe.dll.compressed"
    [18]: "costura.system.text.encodings.web.dll.compressed"
    [19]: "costura.system.text.json.dll.compressed"
    [20]: "costura.system.threading.tasks.extensions.dll.compressed"
    [21]: "costura.system.valuetuple.dll.compressed"
    [22]: "costura.unclassified.txlib.dll.compressed"
    [23]: "costura.unclassified.txlib.pdb.compressed"
    [24]: "costura.wpfanimatedgif.dll.compressed"
    [25]: "costura.wpfanimatedgif.pdb.compressed"
    [26]: "costura.fluentwpf.dll.compressed"
    [27]: "costura.fluentwpf.pdb.compressed"
    [28]: "costura.notifications.wpf.dll.compressed"
    [29]: "costura.metadata"

From this list, looks like there pdb I am looking for (in this case I am looking for something like windowtop.pdb or windowtop.pdb.compressed or whatever it is) is not found.

So I wondering if it did embed the pdb file or not... Anyway, I hope that it did and I don't know how to get it.
When I try to build it, I do see the pdb file generated also for Release mode. So I think that it should be there
Can you help?

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[tom-englert]

Costura embedds all dependencies and optionally their pdb files, but not the pdb of the hosting assembly.
If you need this, use the <DebugType>embedded</DebugType> feature of dotNet.