.NET DLL references/dependency checking utility

.net visual-studio dependencies utilities
prosseek picture prosseek · Jan 5, 2012 · Viewed 52.4k times · Source

With Visual Studio, I can see the dll references as the attached picture as an example. With this reference information, I can open the (from the example) Composition project to find all the other references on and on to get all the reference file names.

Is there any utility that does this job automatically? I mean, given an .NET assembly, it checks all the references/dependencies recursively to give the names of DLLs.

I checked cygwin's ldd and Depends.exe, but they don't seem to show the dlls from other projects, but only system dlls.

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Answer

competent_tech picture competent_tech · Jan 5, 2012

Yes: ildasm.exe. It is installed with the SDK.

Should be in a path like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin

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