“It’s just as easy to debug in the GAC as it is in BIN if you configure the development environment correctly. Unfortunately, few know how to do this because the internet is polluted with pages full of bad information that is a held over from previous versions of .Net. You can spot these easily because they will say you need to copy the debug symbols (.pdb file) to the GAC. In and of itself, that will not work. These days it is also completely unnecessary.
To configure VS 2005 to debug the assemblies properly, do the following…“
