I was chatting with a TS today about the details that go into making the IntelliTrace stand-alone collector really light up. We chatted a fair bit about symbols and their importance. I have been pushing the symbol and source index settings in TFS and then we got talking about keeping the symbols that match the deployment. What the TS hadn’t fully internalized was how build retention policies fit into that story to ensure that the symbols for the deployed builds can be managed. The last piece of the pie is resolving the symbols afterward as VS needs to know where to look.
Do you have a nice end to end that really gets into this entire story? Maybe a series of labs that really pull all of the pieces together?

Submitted by Visual Studio ALM Ranger