{"id":37236,"date":"2017-11-15T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=37236"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:32","slug":"vsts-is-now-a-symbol-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/vsts-is-now-a-symbol-server\/","title":{"rendered":"VSTS is now a Symbol Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services<\/a> and Team Foundation Server<\/a> users have been asking for a Symbol Server<\/a>. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed to step through an application line-by-line. More than 680 of you<\/a>\u00a0have asked for this functionality, and I’m pleased to formally announce the public preview of the VSTS Symbol Server.<\/p>\n

The VSTS Symbol Server is easy to use. The updated “Index Sources and Publish Symbols” task<\/a>\u00a0now publishes symbols to the VSTS Symbol Server with a single checkbox – no advanced configuration or file share set-up required.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

And, it’s just as easy to consume symbols from Visual Studio<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. With VS2017 Update 4.1 (version 15.4.1) or later, type “debugging symbols” in Quick Launch and press Enter.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the “New VSTS Symbol Server Location…” button (marked in red below). In the dialog that appears, click your VSTS account and click Connect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When you’re done, it’ll look like this:<\/p>\n

    \"A<\/p>\n

    If you prefer debugging with the new UWP version of\u00a0WinDbg<\/a>, we’ve got you covered there as well: the docs<\/a>\u00a0will help you configure your VSTS account on the WinDbg sympath.<\/p>\n

    To get started with the VSTS Symbol Server, make sure you’ve installed and licensed Package Management<\/a>\u00a0(every VSTS account gets 5 free users, and all Visual Studio Enterprise users also have access to Package Management as part of their subscription).<\/p>\n

    Then, open the preview features panel, select “for this account” from the dropdown, and enable the “Symbol Server” toggle.<\/p>\n

    \"The<\/p>\n

    We’re excited for you to try out the VSTS Symbol Server, and we look forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,1,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ci","category-devops","category-package-management"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

    As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written in native languages like C and C++, because they map from the built binary back to the source code: the classes and functions needed […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}