Help me to read .pdb file

Question

Hi Guys...

I have a lot of file in .pdb format, some of them downloaded, but until now i can't using or read what the inside, so i looking for how to read, view the .pdb file format from MS Windows XP.

any of you that's may know how to open it?

For any input would be help me and Many Thank You 1st.

Answer 1

.pdb files are meant to be used by debugger. I think the file format is private to Microsoft and not documented. BTW why do you want to read a pdb file?

Answer 2

.pdb files contain debug symbols for .NET assemblies. You can't read the files directly, rather the framework uses them when debugging to output line numbers in stack traces.

Answer 3

If you mean PDB as in a "program database" that the debugger uses:

PDB files contain data about a file such as an EXE or DLL that is used to aid in debuggined. There are public interfaces that allow you to extract data from the file. See examples here:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2005/08/25/pdb2xml.aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/bugs/PdbParser.aspx

If you mean PDB as in a Palm Pilot Database, then I know nothing about it, but the file format is available here:

• http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/pilot/pdb.txt