"The breakpoint will not currently be hit" keeps showing on a partial view

Question

In a specific partial view, I consistently get a message in the breakpoints I set:

"The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document."

Is there any reason for this to happen? What may I have done?

I restarted Visual Studio and I even restarted my computer, but it didn't work.

What do I have to do to debug this page?

Thanks!

Edit

I edit the partial view file with which I am having problems, but the changes do NOT take effect. So, somehow, that bastard compiler is getting the file from somewhere else. Where?!

Answer 1

I had the same situation after modifying a view that used to debug ok. I reverted my changes and debugging resumed working. I found I had a syntax error on a line. There was no clue it was wrong - there was no red underlining and the project compiled fine.

If you have the problem in your view, I suggest commenting most of the code to a minimal skeleton. If debug works again, uncomment some of your lines back in until you find the problem code. Good luck with that.

Answer 2

There are several possible reasons for that:

• The version of the source file is not the one you compiled. Try to recompile.
• The DLL containing the code is not loaded in the program at runtime. Use the program in a way that the DLL will be needed if you have dynamic loading of DLL.
• You are visualizing a source file which is not in the right directory (another copy of the solution somewhere else on the hard disk). Open the right source file.
• You didn't compile the program in debug mode. Recompile it in debug mode.
• You didn't launch the program in debug mode. Launch it in debug mode.