ildasm

I've a directory with a large number of dlls . I need to find all those that reference a specific dll . I'm thinking about the following solution : Loop the assemblies and invoke each one with ildasm Dump the manifest into a text file Search the text files for the required assembly name. Yet this solution feels immensely wrong to me. Is there a better way to achieve it? You could write a small tool for that purpose, using Reflection to find the referenced assemblies: string[] fileNames = ...; // get all the filenames foreach (string fileName in fileNames) { var assembly = System.Reflection

I am trying to produce a tool which is smart enough to programmtically examine release version binaries produced by identical C# code compiled on two seperate machinces at different times and conclude that the code was identical while being able to pick up any code changes if present in the c# code used to produce these binaries. I have tried using a number of approaches but in order to keep this short i'll just stick to the latest attempt. I run ildasm with the /text option on the binaries and replace the GUIDs for anonymous fields etc in text, but when the binaries come from different pcs i

I have been playing around with ILDasm and have noticed that: Decompiling C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\System.Runtime.dll (36KB) simply returns a manifest file. Decompiling C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETCore\v4.5\System.Runtime.dll (114KB) returns the manifest and all types in the assembly. Decompiling C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETCore\v4.5\mscorlib.dll (38KB) simply returns a manifest file and decompiling C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\mscorlib.dll (5171KB) returns a manifest and all

Is there the equivalent of ILDASM / ILASM for the .net-core? Specifically, I'm looking for something that runs on Linux (Hence why the .net-core). Both the ildasm and ilasm tools are built with CoreCLR from this repo: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr . They include similar functionality as the versions shipped with Windows (sans GUI, etc.). There are nuget packages shipped that include them as well ( https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=ildasm ), but they are platform-specific and also require a matching version of CoreCLR to use, so they are not straightforward to consume via nuget. The easiest

Is there a way to programmatically get the FileInfo/Path of the ildasm.exe/ilasm.exe executables? I'm attempting to decompile and recompile a dll/exe file appropriately after making some alterations to it (I'm guessing PostSharp does something similar to alter the IL after the compilation). I found a blog post that pointed to: var pfDir = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolders.ProgramFiles)); var sdkDir = Path.Combine(pfDir, @"Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin"); ... However, when I ran this code the directory did not exist (mainly because my SDK version is 7.1), so on my local