What is pdb file

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irasmith

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I have been working with Visual Basic Standard and done some 'bunny' programs just to learn by.

When I do the Build Solution option, it creates an exe file which seems to run just fine.

But in the \bin directory where the exe file is placed there is also a pdb file.

What does this file do and is it necessary to distribute it along with the exe?
Thanks,
Ira
 
Thank you so much for the information.

At this point in my early VB.NET efforts I have not had to resort to debugging to find issues with the short simple code I am playing around with.

As for incremental linking, well that is a concept I have yet to get to so for the moment I will not worry about that one.

Thanks,
Ira
 
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