C# – DTD is prohibited in this XML document — how to change permissions

I did this some time before for validating RSS feeds. The method to do validation by locally stored DTD was to insert a custom XmlResolver to the XmlReader

XmlReaderSettings readerSettings = new XmlReaderSettings();
readerSettings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD;
readerSettings.ProhibitDtd = false;
readerSettings.XmlResolver = new XmlFakeDtdResolver();

which would give the reader the local DTD (for known formats) instead of downloading it from the URL given in DOCTYPE.

class XmlFakeDtdResolver : XmlUrlResolver
{
    public static Dictionary<Uri, byte[]> dtdMap = new Dictionary<Uri, byte[]>();
    public static Dictionary<string, Uri> uriMap = new Dictionary<string, Uri>();
    static XmlFakeDtdResolver()
    {
        Uri rss091uri = new Uri("http://fake.uri/rss091");
        uriMap["-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"] = rss091uri;
        uriMap["http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd"] = rss091uri;
        dtdMap[rss091uri] = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Resources.rss_0_91dtd);
    }

    public override object GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, string role, Type ofObjectToReturn)
    {
        if (dtdMap.ContainsKey(absoluteUri) && ofObjectToReturn == typeof(Stream))
        {
            return new MemoryStream(dtdMap[absoluteUri]);
        }
        return base.GetEntity(absoluteUri, role, ofObjectToReturn);
    }

    public override Uri ResolveUri(Uri baseUri, string relativeUri)
    {
        if (uriMap.ContainsKey(relativeUri))
            return uriMap[relativeUri];
        return base.ResolveUri(baseUri, relativeUri);
    }
}

As an end note, I decided to not use DTD validation in the end and go for validation by XML schema, one reason being that many feeds didn't include the DOCTYPE

Start debugging, as soon as you've arrived at a breakpoint or used Debug > Break All, use Debug > Windows > Modules. You'll see a list of all the assemblies that are loaded into the process. Locate the one you want to get debug info for. Right-click it and select Symbol Load Information. You'll get a dialog that lists all the directories where it looked for the .pdb file for the assembly. Verify that list against the actual .pdb location. Make sure it doesn't find an old one.

In normal projects, the assembly and its .pdb file should always have been copied by the IDE into the same folder as your .exe, i.e. the bin\Debug folder of your project. Make sure you remove one from the GAC if you've been playing with it.