Debugging a DLL from my own Visual Studio Extension

[vaira20ster]

I have developed a custom my own Visual Studio Extension. And in that Extension Window, I am calling a class library (DLL) and access the Classes, Methods and Properties of those classes inside the DLL. I am allowing the user to select any method from the class and execute the method.

Now, I have installed my own Extension in Visual Studio so that when I start Visual Studio, it appears as a window in Visual Studio similar to Solution Explorer, Properties windows. Now when the user executes a method (explained in the above paragraph), He is looking for an option to debug the method by placing the Breakpoint, Step over, etc..

Questions I have are,

1. How the user will place the breakpoint inside the DLL which I am calling from my own Extension Window?
2. How the execution will enter into the source code of the DLL and allow the user to debug further using breakpoints, Step In, Step Over, etc...

Note: I have placed the pdb file (which is being created along with DLL) in parallel to the DLL location.

Any help on this would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.


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