Parsing plain Win32 PE File (Exe/DLL) in .NET

c# .net-3.5 assemblies marshalling portable-executable
Usman picture Usman · May 23, 2010 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I need to parse plain Win32 DLL/Exe and get all imports and exports from it to show on console or GUI (i.e. Win Forms). Is it possible to parse Win32 DLL/Exe in C#.NET by reading its export/import tables and get managed types from it? As it's unmanaged PE, .NET doesn't allows you to convert unmanaged PE files to managed .NET assemblies, it only generates COM managed assemblies.

How can I parse these tables and take all of its methods (signatures) in managed form. (e.g. if char* as argument, it should display as IntPtr).

Answer

secana picture secana · Feb 22, 2016

Have a look at the PeNet library for .Net. It can parse and list you all Exports/Imports of a DLL. You can get it from github or directly as a NuGet package. https://github.com/secana/PeNet https://www.nuget.org/packages/PeNet/

(disclaimer: I'm the author of the project)

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