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We’ve released our 5th early access build
The previous few builds have been about making the Visual Studio integration more seamless and morphing from being a Visual Studio Add-in to a Visual Studio Package. The whole team is working towards making seamless, dynamic decompilation and automatic ‘Step Into’(F11) code without source a reality.
To help, we came up with the ‘ROB’. For the world outside it’s known as the ‘Reflector Object Browser’. You can now right click on any assembly in the ‘ROB’ to make it debuggable. This generates the .pdb file for that assembly in the cache directory, and enables you to dynamically step into the implementation of an assembly by just hitting F11. Similarly, you can also double-click on any method in the ‘ROB’ to dynamically generate the code for it in Visual Studio.
So, why this new early access build just within a week of the previous early access build? Well, we decided that this sprint would be all about doing some housekeeping tasks which we’ve wanted to do for a long time, but didn’t manage to prioritize earlier. We’ve now managed to fix quite a few bugs around general usability, ‘Go to Definition’ functionality, licensing, and SmartAssembly.
Here is an entire list of what’s new for this EAP:
The Go to Decompiled Definition menu item
This takes you to:
Viewing the decompiled code.
As always we’d love to here your feedback on the latest EAP or anything to do with .NET Reflector so please drop us a line on the forums or the EAP pages.
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The work on getting Reflector working inside Visual Studio is progressing fairly quickly. In the previous EAP, we detoured a little, re-implementing the existing Addin as package (for users of VS2010 onwards) in order to allow us to get tighter integration into Visual Studio.
This has allowed us to work with the F12 shortcut and associated “Go To Definition” command, dynamically decompiling source as needed.
As in previous EAPs, the Reflector Object Browser (ROB) is populated with the assemblies that are referenced by your solution. You can then navigate through these assemblies using the Reflector tree, double-clicking at any time to decompile and display the source in an editor window. For example, here I navigated to AppDomain in the ROB and double-clicked…
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What are we doing?
Acting on some conversations we’ve had with the guys at Microsoft, we’re currently in the process of changing how we integrate with Visual Studio. Specifically, we’re moving away from being a Visual Studio add-in, and towards being a Visual Studio package.
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The trouble with having a code base that you didn’t write yourself is that you’re often surprised to discover features that you’ve never seen before. I had this revelation some time ago when I was looking through the Reflector code, and had a close look at the IAssemblyManager interface:
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