Can I use pdb files to step through a 3rd party assembly?

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Hi folks,

my friend has made a really helpful class library which I use all the time. I usually use Reflector to see what his code does.

What I really wanted to do was to step through his code while I'm debugging. So he gave me his .pdb file.

Foo.dll (release configuration, compile)
Foo.pdb

Now, I'm not sure how I can get it to auto break into his code when it throws an exception (his code, at various points, thorws exceptions .. like A first chance exception of type 'System.Web.HttpException' occurred in Foo.dll ...

Can I do this? Do i need to setup something with the Symbol Server settings in Visual Studio ? Do i need to get the dll compiled into Debug Configuration and be passed the .dll and .pdb files? Or (and i'm really afraid of this one) .. do i need to have both the .dll, .pdb AND his source code ...

I also had a look at this previous SO question, but it sorta didn't help (but proof I've tried to search before asking a question).

Can someone help me please?

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