Class Browsing for .NET components with Reflector = High Praise
This one has been getting a lot of praise lately... The official site says:
“Reflector is a class browser for .NET components. It supports assembly and namespace views, type and member search, C# XML documentation viewer, call and callee graphs, IL disassembler, VB and C# decompiler, dependency trees, base type and derived type hierarchies and resource viewers. C#, Visual Basic and Delphi language syntax is supported. “
“.NET Reflector is seriously cool...One really cool feature is the ability to decompile the routines back into C#. Obviously it doesn't have enough information to give you the exact original code, but it does a surprisingly good job of generating readable code! .... it has some nice searching features (replacing the need for Code Viewer). It's a great way to explore a codebase. “
Victor Says:
“Unless you’re living under a rock you should have already heard about Reflector. Good news is that the best utility for .NET ever created still continues to improve day after day.”
There are a bunch more entries about it if you search feedster, but I say “you can never have enough tools”!
Enjoy - Josh
Comments
- Anonymous
May 03, 2004
"lately..."? Reflector is always getting praise if I remember right :-). - Anonymous
May 03, 2004
"you can never have enough tools”. We'll, that might be true but if you're going on an island the one tool to take with you is Reflector :-) - Anonymous
May 18, 2004
How does oen get a copy? - Anonymous
May 18, 2004
The official site: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/DotNet/ has the download. - Anonymous
June 10, 2004
How is this really different from the Object Browser in VS.NET? - Anonymous
June 10, 2004
I'd have to guess becuase of everything it does that the class browser doesn't...
"XML documentation viewer, call and callee graphs, IL disassembler, VB and C# decompiler, dependency trees, base type and derived type hierarchies and resource viewers. C#, Visual Basic and Delphi language syntax is supported."