For a general introduction to .NET Reflector, take a look at .NET Reflector: Soup to Nuts and for a general guide to add-ins see Using .NET Reflector Add-ins . To see what we are up to, in planning other developments with the Reflector codebase see ‘What a Job Opportunity’ and ‘A new Visual Studio hosted debugging technology based on .NET Reflector’/
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I report a bug in one of the add-ins?
- How do I find out which add-ins I have installed?
- How do I install add-ins?
- How do I view decompiled source code?
- How do I refresh the assemblies list?
- I’m getting an error saying a path and/or filename is too long
- Can I use .NET Reflector to extract the resources from a .NET assembly?
- Can I view disassembled IL instead of decompiled source code?
- Does .NET Reflector support unmanaged code?
- Can I customize the appearance of the decompiled source code in the Disassembler pane?
- Does .NET Reflector lock assemblies and/or PDB files?
- Is it possible to configure the visibility of members and types that .NET Reflector displays?
- How does .NET Reflector deal with indexers?
- .NET Reflector doesn’t decompile some methods correctly – why not?
- Is it possible to see XML documentation for members and types?
- How do I stop .NET Reflector from asking me to locate assemblies all the time?
- Where’s the .NET 3.5 decompilation support?
- Can I decompile a whole assembly back to C# or VB source code?
- How can I set breakpoints in the code I’ve decompiled when debugging?
- How can I tell which overload of a method is being called in the decompiled source code?
- Why does .NET Reflector auto-update itself?
- Can I edit assemblies I’ve opened in .NET Reflector?
- Why doesn’t the analyzer work for enum values?
- Does the .NET Reflector Visual Studio add-in work with Visual Studio Express?
- Is it possible to load different versions of the same assembly at the same time?
- How do I integrate .NET Reflector with the Windows Explorer shell?
- How can I decompile the implementation of an entire class or struct?