Debug Symbols not loading

Question

I am trying to configure visual studio to enable me to step into the .net framework source code when I am debugging.

I have tried with both Visual Web-Developer-Express

Answer 1

Source stepping is only available for RTM or SP releases.

See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/refsourceserver/thread/1b74f60c-e961-425c-a38e-362406dd4cfe.

Since 4.5 assemblies keep the same version number as 4.0 (stupid idea), then there is no way to get compatible symbols + source right now, so this is impossible with VS11 installed. You must start over with a clean machine and don't install .NET 4.5.

This is really stupid … the whole point of versioning just thrown out the window.