Tomáš Matoušek

@lcorrigan > We have a folder of .NET dll's that are external to our script code directory tree. I'm curious about this setup. Can you share more details?

We can definitely publish them to NuGet.

Hmm, converting the entire PDB is quite a hammer. I'm curious, how does NuGet Package Explorer use SourceLink?

Cool! I assume it only works when the PDB is in the package? Or do you also support fetching the PDB from a symbol server?

Yeah, handling all scenarios gets a bit complicated. In most of our tools (e.g. Roslyn) we use the API that matches the PDB format. For Windows PDBs, we use managed...

Re symbol server: we now do recommend customers using snupkg for publishing Portable PDBs, rather than embedding them into their main packages. Fetching PDBs from symbol server would be a...

I hear you, unfortunately not everyone has fast internet connection and we need to be considerate of customers who experience slow restore times and not make their situation worse.

We can certainly look for some improvements in the symbol loader. /cc @chuckries

The metadata in the dll are required for the conversion. It can also contain embedded PDB.

Yes, the error message could be improved.