Free .NET Decompiler - JustDecompile

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by binarymax • 15 years ago

37 14 15 years ago

In case anyone doesn't know yet (and for future reference), ILSpy (http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ILSpy.ashx) is an open source alternative, and .NET Reflector was the first "popular" .NET decompiler that was used until they decided to force people to pay for it.

saurik4• 15 years ago

ahem Actually, I wrote the first .NET decompiler: Exemplar, with a GUI later called Anakrino; it was even quite popular. Microsoft actually used it as a test case for their compiler occasionally. ;P Reflector existed at the time, but it was not a decompiler: it was just a class browser and disassembler. He added the decompilation features due to pressure from Anakrino, to which I was adding class browser functionality (and was orders of magnitudes faster, as I hated waiting around for Reflector to analyze the binary, which used to take forever). (Incidentally, Anakrino was open source.)

rao• 15 years ago

and then what happened?

cfn• 15 years ago

I remember using Anakrino! That was a loong time ago and thanks for doing it. What happened?

simonbrown• 15 years ago

There's also dotPeek.

http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/

darklajid• 15 years ago

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  support for auto-updating when new versions are
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Isn't that what ultimately lead to the .Net Reflector ~crisis~? Can I opt out? Because otherwise I'd rather stick to ILSpy or even the jetbrains offer.

zzygan• 15 years ago

If its not open source, then the same thing will eventually happen that happened with reflector.

I'll stick with ILSpy when I work on .NET/mono

craigdo• 15 years ago

I tried this and dotPeek (http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/) when Reflector stopped being free. I found them both a little lacking - the decompiled code wasn't quite right, especially for linq expressions. I finally paid for Reflector. It was worth it for me.

Free .NET Decompiler - JustDecompile

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