.NET Reflector Add-ins

Usage

Palantir’s Reflector.Diff performs high speed differencing between assemblies to help you visualise the changes between them.

Features

• Choose Framework version to compare the assembly to (must be installed on the machine)
• Browse for a specific assembly
• High speed differencing with background processing
• Differences displayed inline
• Difference Viewer virtually identical to standard Disassembler window

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.NET Reflector is a great tool for doing an in-depth examination of various types of assemblies and also for disassembling IL code towards a supported .NET language. However, Reflector is not designed to modify either the structure or the IL code of assemblies. Reflexil allows such modifications and is directed especially towards IL code handling. It accomplishes this by proposing a complete instruction editor and by allowing C# / VB.NET code injection.

Features

• Alter any .NET assembly (exe or dll file) without source code
• Complete IL Editor
• On the fly VB.NET or C# compilation (v2.0, v3.5, v4.0) and injection
• Strong name removal
• Rename, delete or add types, methods, fields, events, … to an assembly
• PEVerify wrapper

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Assembly Visualizer gives you an ability to take from assemblies as much information as you can with a minimum amount of actions. It has several components, showing data from different perspectives.

Features

• Search for types in specified assemblies
• Types sorting by descendants or members count
• Types filtering by nature (enum, interface, etc.) and visibility
• Ability to view enum and interface members right from the search in tooltips
• Visualization of type hierarchy from base to descendants
• Browsing type hierarchy from type to its supertypes
• Highlighting of virtual members and their overrides
• Members filtering by nature (method, field, etc.) and visibility
• Visualization of interactions between members of one or more types
• Drawing full dependency graph for selected assemblies

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The features of the Reflector Add-in match the features of Jon Skeet’s WPF Snippy (or did at the time Jason wrote the add-in).

Features

• Attempts to build C# code typed in the Snippy Window. When you compile, any build messages (including error messages from the build) are written to the Output Window – which only shows after a Build has been called for
• You can optionally Save the code in the Snippy window as a snippet file. This is designed to save a temporary snippet – if you want to reopen later, you should use the Save As snippet
• Exports or allows the user to save the code in the Snippy window (wrapped with the templated code) as a C# file

More details on the functionality of Snippy are available on Jason Haley’s site, accessibly via the “download” button.
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This is extremely useful if you are searching for a specific line of code, as you can use VS.NET’s “Find in Files” or want to convert a class from one language to another.

Features

• Dump all classes of an assembly into source code files in any .NET language
• Creates proper directory structure that matches the namespace
• Optionally creates a Visual Studio project file

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You can connect your local Reflector installation to a remote SQL Server instance, list the databases and its assemblies and download them directly into .NET Reflector.

Features

• Allows you to connect to any CLR-enabled SQL Server
• Lists all the assemblies stored in the database
• Allows to open an assembly directly in Reflector

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Peli’s add-ins cover a variety of functionality including code annotation, basic assembly visualization, COM/OLE type library importing, and code analysis and metric visualization. Please bear in mind that these add-ins are provided "as-is", although further information is available on the .NET Reflector blog, as well as in the downloaded .zip file.

Features

• CodeMetrics – Analyzes and computes several code quality metrics on your assemblies, such as cyclomaatic complexity and number of local variables in a method (to name just two).
• Review – A lightweight code annotation addin.
• Graph – Visualizes assembly dependencies.
• ComLoader – Allows the importing of COM/OLE type libraries using .NET Reflector’s file menu.

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