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November 2004 - Posts

Reading poorly formatted .NET code - made easy!

I downloaded a .NET app the other day and wondered how the author was accomplishing one piece of it.  He had made the source code available for download, so I downloaded it and started digging in.  But it didn't take me long to realize the the author had no style whatsoever - the code was a mess!

While I was reformatting the code to make it readable, I had a thought - it might be faster to use Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector to disassemble the exe and then read the generated code.  I tried it and within a few minutes I had found what I was looking for.

What an awesome tool!

Posted: Nov 29 2004, 08:44 PM by bkcarroll | with 8 comment(s)
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