Reflector for 2.0?

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Anyone know of a tool a la Reflector that I can use to dive into to see the code for the .NET 2.0 assemblies? Need to start digging heavy into the Provider Model.

If anyone has access to one that works on the CTP bits, please let me know, or e-mail it to me.

10 Comments

Hmm...isn't in the current archive - I have a copy of the version he did release I could mail you(haven't tested it on the March bits yet though)

Scott Galloway - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:31:00 PM
Scott - Could you e-mail that to me? I can't get it working over here...

Robert W. McLaws - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:56:00 PM
Yep, that doesn't work with the CTP bits. The newer versiion works better, but I can't decompile and get at any code.

Robert W. McLaws - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:18:00 PM
Sorry about that...I'm sure if you contact Lutz he'll be able to help...

Scott Galloway - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:20:00 PM
Yeah, but I don't read IL.

Robert W. McLaws - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:54:00 PM
Anakrino does not work with System.dll. It seems to work with some other ones, but System.Configuration.Providers.ProviderBase lives in there.

Robert W. McLaws - Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:24:00 AM
>> Yeah, but I don't read IL.

Oh come on Robert, C# is for wimps! :)

Mike Sax - Friday, April 16, 2004 4:17:00 AM
Lol. Maybe someday when I'm not a one-man development team, product support unit, marketing copywriter, and business development manager, I'll have enough time to learn IL too. ;). Until then I could really use a tool to speed this along.

Robert W. McLaws - Friday, April 16, 2004 4:52:00 AM
should be able to do an assembly redirect with a .config file to run Reflector on the ctp bits (supportedRuntimes). i definitely did this successfully on the pdc bits.

Bill - Friday, April 16, 2004 2:29:00 PM
Something changed between the PDC bits and the CTP bits. There is now an extra meta data table header that Reflector does not like. It errors out trying to browse any code whatsoever.

Robert W. McLaws - Friday, April 16, 2004 4:15:00 PM

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