Does signing a DLL invalidate a PDB file?

Kalyani Reddy 1 Reputation point
2022-08-29T04:20:23.823+00:00

Hi,
I have signed my dll using SignTool.exe with timestamp. No the timestamp of dll and pdb file are different.
Does signing the dll invalidate the pdb file?
How exactly pdb works?

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  1. RLWA32 40,286 Reputation points
    2022-08-29T09:39:57.703+00:00

    No, signing a dll or an exe does not invalidate the related pdb (symbol file).

    For a description of debugging with Visual Studio and symbol files read specify-symbol-dot-pdb-and-source-files-in-the-visual-studio-debugger

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