WinDbg: is there any relationship between it and "Windows Symbol Packages"

Our live servers (ASP.NET) intermittently run into a mysterious error, but i can开发者_C百科not access the servers direcly.

After researching, I refer to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx and find Windows Symbol Packages in that page.

What is that? And how is it connected to WinDbg?

Thanks.

Huh?

Symbol packages are offline packages you can get instead of connecting to the symbol server directly and downloading symbols on demand.

WinDBG is a debugger. It can use symbols to help you understand stack traces, etc. Without symbols you only get raw addresses.