Web API in MVC Project isn't hitting breakpoints (“symbols not loaded”)

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC project, with an ASP.NET web api defined as an area in this project. So the structure is the following:

MVC Web
   Controllers
   View         


        

Answer 1

Open:

Tools - Options - Debugging - General

Select:

• Enable .NET Framework source stepping

• Enable source server support (all options selected)

Open:

Tools - Options - Symbol

Select Microsoft Symbol Servers

Click Load All Symbols

Rebuild the project.

Select:

Clean

Rebuild

Rebuild solution and try again.