Question

Your team publishes internal NuGet packages to an Azure Artifacts feed. Developers consuming these packages report that when they step into library code during debugging in Visual Studio, they cannot see the original source or line-level breakpoints. You want to enable full source-level debugging of the published packages without manually distributing PDB files. What should you configure in the build pipeline that produces the packages?

Accepted Answer

Add a PublishSymbols task that publishes the .pdb files to the Azure Artifacts symbol server, and have developers configure Visual Studio to use the organization's symbol server.

Answer

Enable the retention policy on the feed to keep all package versions indefinitely so the PDBs are never deleted.

Answer

Set the NuGet package version to a SemVer prerelease tag so Visual Studio automatically downloads matching debug symbols.

Answer

Configure an upstream source on the feed pointing to nuget.org so symbols are resolved from the public symbol server.