How can I get the GUID from a PDB file?

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thoughton picture thoughton · Mar 25, 2010 · Viewed 8k times · Source

Does anyone know how to get the GUID from a PDB file?

I'm using Microsoft's Debug Interface Access SDK

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f0756hat.aspx

and getting E_PDB_INVALID_SIG when passing in the GUID i expect when trying to load the PDB.

I'd just like to know the GUID of the PDB so I can be certain that it's mismatching and not just a PDB that's perhaps corrupted somehow.

Is there a tool that can do this? I've tried dia2dump and dumpbin, but with no joy...

Many thanks,

thoughton.

Answer

Paul Arnold picture Paul Arnold · Mar 26, 2010

There is a Code Project tool called PDB Inspector that should be able to help you. Or if you need to do this programatically essentially you call:

IDiaDataSource::LoadDataFromPdb
IDiaDataSource::openSession
IDiaSession::get_global_scope
IDiaSymbol::get_guid

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