Microsoft Symbol Server Up!

Microsoft just recently brought their symbol server up live on the internet.

This means that, if you have a reasonably decent internet connection from
your debugger system, you won’t have to download and setup the o/s symbols
(though this is still an option, of course).

You do this by setting up an intermediate “downstream store” for the
symbols, backed-up with Microsoft’s symbol server. The symbols are
downloaded as needed from the Microsoft symbol server, and cached in the
downstream symbol store.

You then add
SRV*downstream store*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

to your symbol path…

Check out:

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging/symbols.asp

Let us all hear about your results!

Peter
OSR


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