MsBuild not generating PDB files in Release configuration

Answer 1

You could also updated your publish profile (.pubxml) file to include that property value. I had to do this today with the new build bits in TFS Build 2015 to have the web publishing include the .pdb files. See example contents of file with property added to bottom.

  
    FileSystem
    
    C:\Publish
    True
    Release
    Any CPU
    False
    False
    false