Loading Debugging Symbols on Visual Studio 2026

[vasudan]

I followed the readme and I got to the point where I wanted to debug my plugin. I'm using visual studio in Windows so I

1. Downloaded the exe from the jellyfin website
2. Added the exe to my plugin's project
3. Built my plugin in Debug mode and copied the output to the jellyfin plugin folder
4. Set the exe as the startup project and started debugging.

Unfortunately, this did not load any debugging symbols in my plugin, and no break points were getting hit.

I managed to fix this though:

1. I right-clicked the jellyfin project in VS and went to Properties
2. Changed the Debugger Type from Auto to Mixed (.NET Core, .NET 5+)

After restarting my debug session I could hit my breakpoints.

Has anyone else had to do this? I'm wondering if this should be added to the README or if it was a problem specific to me.