Which tool to use to open .pdb (symbol) files?

Question

I have .pdb file, downloaded from MS symbols server. I need to fetch list of symbols (functions, arguments, anything it has). There is a tool on CodeProject, but it only reports modules. There is DbgHelp API, but it only could be attcahed to running process. How can I read .pdb file offline?

Answer 1

Good News for anyone still looking,

The information you seek is now open source!

https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb

Some real interesting stuff there. Like this pdbdump.cpp file, with its dumpPublics function or its main flow controls. Good documentation too

Answer 2

You can also use Visual Studio's Dia2Dump sample program to dump human-readable output from a PDB file, including its public symbols.

Be sure to build it as a 32-bit application though, or you might run into some problems with it. (See dia2dump: CoCreateInstance failed - HRESULT = 80040154)