Using Reflector To Create VisualStudio Project

c# reflector
Jack Kada picture Jack Kada · Mar 13, 2010 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I have a .exe app which I want to understand better - I can see it in reflector

Is there any way to get reflector to create a VS project with the code so I can view it properly in Visual Studio?

Answer

Hans Passant picture Hans Passant · Mar 13, 2010

Nothing special is needed, it is built into Reflector, albeit not very discoverable. Right-click the assembly in the left pane and choose Export. You'll get a chance to change the output directory. Click OK and Reflector starts decompiling the code, creating a source file for each individual class. And creates a .csproj file which you can open in Visual Studio.

Related questions

How can I protect my .NET assemblies from decompilation?

One if the first things I learned when I started with C# was the most important one. You can decompile any .NET assembly with Reflector or other tools. Many developers are not aware of this fact and most of them …

Read More
C# reflection and finding all references

Given a DLL file, I'd like to be able to find all the calls to a method within that DLL file. How can I do this? Essentially, how can I do programmatically what Visual Studio already does? I don't want …

Read More
How do you find all implementations of an interface?

Suppose you have an interface defined in C#. What is the easiest method to find all classes that provide an implementation of the interface? The brute force method would be to use "Find References" in Visual Studio and manually look …

Read More