Can i reverse engineer my own dll?

.net reverse-engineering reflector
Pure.Krome picture Pure.Krome · Aug 25, 2009 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

We've got a .NET project at work, which we lost (human error). The person who wrote the code said she had three projects in the solution => one webform, one winform and one class library.

Now, we have the final DLLs and website. Is there anything we can do with this?

For the class library, I was thinking about using Reflector to copy/paste the code and, with time, rename MethodNames and variables, etc.. to some nice english stuff.

For the website, not sure.

Does anyone have any ideas or options?

She said she doesn't have the pdb files either :( (Release builds).

Cheers :)

Answer

jrista picture jrista · Aug 25, 2009

Use the FileDissasembler extension here to simply extract the full code using Reflector:

http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins

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