Batch download the VS 2008 SP1 source/symbols with the updated Net Mass Downloader

John Robbins' Blog - NetMassDownloader 1.5 Has Complete Support for VS 2008 SP1

“Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft's servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server cache directory with all the source code and symbols. Microsoft did some tweaks to the debugger with SP1 and the symbols are expected to be in a MicrosoftPublicSymbols directory under your symbol cache in order to download the reference source files in the debugger. I also cleaned up the program output, fixed a problem where NetMassDownloader wasn't delete temporary files correctly, and handled the case where the download PDB files have source server information but is missing the HTTP download info.

If you've used a prior version of NetMassDownloader, it's probably best if you delete your cache directory and start fresh. Also note that NetMassDownloader 1.5 assumes that if you are using VS 2008 you have applied SP1. VS 2005 and CodeGear are still supported as they were before.

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Sometimes it’s just easier to get it all at once, before you need it…

Just a reminder that this project is hosted on CodePlex, in all its C# source glory…

 

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