How to generate PDB's for .net managed projects in release mode?

Question

I know PDBs are generated for managed projects in .NET by giving the compiler the /debug argument. Is there a way to specify this in the VS (2005) GUI?

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Answer 1

I found this MONO request that may shed some light on what's the difference between 'full' and 'pdbonly'.

csc has a "pdbonly" debugtype that generates pdbs, while producing runtime code, i.e. optimised, no debugger attributes, etc.

This is important for being able to obtain useful stack traces from release-quality code.

It seems to me that the existance of the 2 tags (DebugSymbols and DebugType) is redundant.