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Decompiled assembly - unusual code
I decompiled an assembly using ILSpy, and one class in particular got my attention:
public class CustomTextStream : NetworkStream
{
private EventHandler someEvent;
public event EventHandler…
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What's __PostIncrement in decompiled VB (by ILSpy)
I was just perusing the decompiled code for System.Collections.Generic.List(Of T).Add(item As T) using ILSpy and I found a call to __PostIncrement. I've never heard of such a thing in VB, so I did some digging and found:
In VB, the code is…
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ILSpy "Failed to resolve assembly" in AstBuilder
I want to decompile a method in my assembly, which references e.g. 'Microsoft.SharePoint.dll', but I have no SharePoint installed on the machine.
If I use the following code I get an Mono.Cecil.AssemblyResolutionException 'failed to resolve…
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Reverse Engineering .NET C# what does this line means?
I've the following line retrieved with ilSpy
p[var1] = (t[var1] + z.c[var1 % z.c.Length]) % 'Ā';
p,t and c are char array[].
my question is: how can he + characters? t[var1]+z.c[someNumber] are 2 characters and then he module the result with a…
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Does Mono Implement CLR? Or At Least Some Unmanaged InternalCall? Or Nothing?
We know that C# uses unmanaged code like P/Invoke or CLR implemented code like InternalCall. What I want to know is does mono it self implements a complete CLR or just some unmanaged code or nothing?
I can use .Net Reflactor or ILSpy to view…
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Are we looking at the original code in a Disassembler or reverse engineered CIL?
Take ILSPy. When I view my assembly am I looking at my original C#? Or, is this code reconstructed from CIL using some type of reverse engineering process?
My understanding is that release assemblies do not include any original code, just CIL. …
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Visual Studio Decompiled Source Definitions from Object Browser
In Visual Studio 2019, there is a new feature powered by ILSpy to view decompiled source definitions(C#). It's documented here.
This is a great feature and when I have a snippet of code like,
SomeExternalClass.MemberFunction()
I can click right…
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How Microsoft Hides C# Internal Classes from a DLL's Metadata?
It all started when I wanted to analyze the code around CVE-2017-8759. I knew that the fix for the CVE was in a class named WsdlParser.cs inside System.Runtime.Remoting.dll which is part of the .Net Framework. You probably have this dll on your…
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Is there a way to do automated decompilation with ILSpy?
We have a rather large third party product which contains a lot of C# DLLs and is updated every month or so. While the decompiler does only a 98% job where it can't get everything, it's good enough for my purposes for the occasional comparative…
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How to use ICSharpCode.Decompiler to decompile a whole assembly to a text file?
I need to get either the whole IL Code or Decompiled Source Code to a text file. Is that possible with the ILSpy Decompile Engine ICSharpCode.Decompiler?
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Is this line of code from ILSpy decompiler valid?
I decompiled a release assembly using ILSPy and I got code like below. When I open the decompiled project in VS 2013, I get an error for each of these statements.
using #j;//this line shows up as an error in VS2013
using System;
The error…
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What risks exist if I work in a C# shop and attempt to write F# just to rely on ILSpy for conversion?
What risks are involved if I work in a C# shop and I attempt to write a feature in F# and then rely on ILSpy to translate the F# source code to a C# representation?
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When tampering an assembly, why can't I remove original instructions?
In order to be able to test legacy code which relies on SharePoint, I need to mock some of the objects of SharePoint. I do this by tampering with SharePoint assemblies, replacing their methods by mine on the fly.
This works for some cases, but not…
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Disassemble IL code into C# with line numbers using MDB (or mdb2pdb?)
Does anyone know of tools that can disassemble IL back into C# code and use information stored in a mdb file to annotate the line numbers of the dissassembled IL?
I am trying to investigate stack traces that have line numbers included without having…
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How can I use ILSpy or other tools to find out which code in the .NET framework generated a particular exception message?
Suppose I have a bit of a particular exception message generated by the framework while running in standard English-US culture, e.g. "This failure occured while attempting to connect to the Principle server." How can I figure out which code in the…
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