Module was built without debug information

Question

Error when attaching debugger to process:

"To debug this module change the project build configuration to debug mode."

I'm running finalbuilder using MSBUILD. The output says:

Running C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe with parameters : /t:Build /nr:false /logger:FinalBuilderLogger,"C:\Program Files (x86)\FinalBuilder 7\FinalBuilder.MSBuild.Logging.v4.0.dll" /noconlog /p:Configuration="Debug";Platform="AnyCPU" /v:normal /m /p:solutionDir="C:\TFS10\Ecc\TestBranch\" "ProjectName.csproj"

Unless I missed something (wouldn't be the first time), these parameters suggest a Debug build with no optimizations. So why the error?

Note: I have experienced a strange issue when doing my builds in finalbuilder where I have to set an output path in the first property group in msbuild:

<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration> 
 <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
 <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>/* this has to be here */

In this group <DebugType> and <DebugSymbols> are not set. So they are defaults.

If it's set in the next property group, 'Debug|AnyCPU' property group alone I get a build error regarding output path not found:

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>

This suggests that the build condition is the default (blank) rather than Debug for some reason.

Answer 1

FinalBuilder was not copying the PDB file. In my case the server already had PDB files, but they didn't match the current build. So with the error the issue was hard to track down. Wish they said "can't find the PDB file" instead of the vague optimizations are off...