Visual Studio PDB

File Format
Name	Visual Studio PDB
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Development Visual Studio PDB
Extension(s)	.pdb

Overview

Visual Studio Program Database Files (PDB) are created by the development environment, and contain debugging information for the compiled binaries. As of 2015, Microsoft has finally begun to document this format.

Resources

• microsoft-pdb - Information from Microsoft about PDB
• PdbDump, a tool to query/analyze PDB files
• Information leakage through PDB files: [1]
• Some more info on the RSDS format: http://www.godevtool.com/Other/pdb.htm