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New Post: Problem in Extracting BizTalk 2006 dll's

mvenkatmca — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:46:45 GMT

I am migrating my application from 2006 R2 version to 2010 version. I do not have the source code for the application and hence used the 2006 production dll. I am using .Net Reflector Tool 8.0 with BizTalkDisassembler add-in.

After extraction, I am able to view few Schemas and Pipelines after changing the xml version. For some files am getting error "Value cannot be null - parameter name : path2"

Am not able to view Maps and Orchestrations. While trying to open .odx files, am getting the error "File is not in the proper .odx format and cannot be opened in the Orchestration Designer".

Has anyone else faced the same issues.

Can someone please provide any suggestions.

Also let me know, any alternative tool to extract BizTalk dll's?

New Post: Can we expect .NET reflector from Microsoft/Codeplex?

kphani_prasad — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:46:50 GMT

thanks for making a reflector - Assembly Analyzer - http://asmanalyzer.codeplex.com/

Are AddIns updated to Assembly Analyzer?

thanks

New Post: Can we expect .NET reflector from Microsoft/Codeplex?

kphani_prasad — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:31:57 GMT

Can we expect .NET reflector from Microsoft/Codeplex?

Its devastating to developer community that .net reflector from red-gate is made purchase, except for trial period...

Can Microsoft stop adding AddIns to it and stand on their own Reflector tool - freely downloadable from Microsoft site,

Hoping CodePlex team would wake up soon on this....!!

thanks

New Post: Analyzer....

nbortolotti — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:22:05 GMT

Is there are way to access the "Instantiated by" output when writing an add-in?

New Post: Using Reflector from the command line during Continuous Integration

mrdavidlaing — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:37:42 GMT

I'm trying to use Reflector to generate Code Complexity metrics (using the CodeMetrics addin) as part of my continuous integration build (Hudson).

I have Reflector checked into my repo, along with the CodeMetric addin.

However, when the CI process tries to run reflector from the command line, ala:

CalculateComplexityMetrics:
  "C:\Websites\hudson\jobs\RTD-Subscription-Engine\workspace\src\..\tools\reflector\Reflector.exe" /Run:Reflector.CodeMetrics /Assembly:"C:\Websites\hudson\jobs\RTD-Subscription-Engine\workspace\src\..\src\SubscriptionEngine.Core\bin\Debug\SubscriptionEngine.Core.dll" /OutputPath:"CodeMetrics.xml"
it just hangs.

I suspect that the add-in has to be manually "added" from a GUI before running from the command line.

Is there a way to register the addin from the command line?

Alternately, where is reflector storing which addins are active? Perhaps I could just poke in some registry settings before running the command line?

Thanks!

David

New Post: Add PowerCommands for Reflector

samuelms — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:08:43 GMT

Just wanted to request that "PowerCommands for Reflector" get added to the homepage.

http://powercommands.codeplex.com/

This tool is pretty awesome. In particular, I liked the ability to grab .resx files. Not necessary, but handy.

New Post: unable to resolve assembly reference

amigupta — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:43:24 GMT

Hi,

While trying to disassemble an exe file, I got an error message i.e. unable to resolve assembly reference.

Can anybody suggest is there any kind of protection being used while creating an exe and how to disassemble such exe files..

Thanks

ami

New Post: Baml file format specification

BenRoberts — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:09:15 GMT

Hello,

I'm interested in many low-level aspects of the .NET framework but can't seem to find any information about the BAML file format anywhere. The BAMLViewer contains a class for parsing these files, which theoretically could be used to determine the file format, but does anyone know if/where the file specification can be found to avoid having to take the hard route?

Thanks,
Ben

New Post: request reflector

kazuhiro_xenosaga — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:52:44 GMT

i request

brose from object browser
create visual studio solution and project from assembly

i difficult english.sorry.

New Post: AutoDiagrammer Link is broken

laedit — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:03:35 GMT

This is the new url : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/AutoDiagrammer.aspx

New Post: Autodiagrammer failed to load with latest reflector

Sarkor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:23 GMT

The latest autodiagramer.dll (v1.12.0.0) seems not work with the latest reflector (v5.1.6.0)

There is a BadImageFormatException after trying to add it

Das someone any idea ? Thanks in advance

New Post: What version(s) of Silverlight does SilverlightLoader support?

ssg31415926 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:49:41 GMT

What version(s) of Silverlight does SilverlightLoader support? I've installed it but I'm having trouble seeing my Silverlight 3.0 application.

New Post: Obtain a IMethodReference from IInstruction.Value

parsellj — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:03:42 GMT

I have a simple bit of code (mostly from Jason Haley's article) that wraps Reflector.exe. I am trying to get the information found in Analysis' pane's "Used By" and "Instantiated By" items. In abbreviated form (no curly braces, etc) the code goes like this:

foreach (IModule module in assembly.Modules)
    foreach (ITypeDeclaration typeDeclaration in module.Types)
       foreach (IMethodDeclaration methodDeclaration in typeDeclaration.Methods)
          IMethodBody methodBody = methodDeclaration.Body as IMethodBody;
          foreach (IInstruction instruction in methodBody.Instructions)
         /* appropriate code to find call, calli, callvirt, and newobj
            statements  and for them obtain instruction.value*/

All of this works as expected. The problem arises from the fact that the Target of the statements is not a fully qualified name as illustrated:

     Call to : String.get_Length() : Int32
     Call to : String.Trim() : String
     Instance: StringBuilder..ctor() : Void
     Call to : StringLogicalComparer.CompareNumbers(String, String, Int32, Int32&) : Int32

Obviously I need the fully qualified names to filter out calls to the .Net libraries and to distinguish between my own Namespaces, etc.

What I seem to need is a way to obtain the appropriate IMethodReference from Reflector for the Target of the calls and newobj statements.

Is there any hope of getting what I need? It is very frustrating to be so close yet so far away.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Jim Parsells

New Post: Help!! please (The following add-in(s) failed to load )

harshagowda — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:19:40 GMT

Hi all,

I am new to dot net,

I want to debug my application,

I heard Reflector is a good decompiler for dot net,

Its good it shows me the code but i want to edit the code, if i try to add any plugin like "ICSharpCode.TextEditor.dll"

I get the Failed to load error,

I have uploaded a screen shot please check

http://i37.tinypic.com/2zdou9i.jpg

Please help me,

Thanks in advance,

Regards

HarshaGowda

New Post: Add-ins to include

sinix — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:15:36 GMT

There's a couple of add-ins not listed there (see below).
Also, what about all-in-one release (maybe with reflector.cfg, but without reflector binaries)?

Missing add-ins list:

AssemblyCollection.Order:
http://jasonhaley.com/addins/
AssemblyCollection Sort is a simple addin that sorts (or reorders) the assembly listing in Reflector to be in alphabetical order.

EnumAddin:
http://jasonhaley.com/addins/
Enums Addin provides a Bit Flag Converter for helping to determine which bits are turned on by providing an integer or vice versa. This addin also includes an Enum Viewer that is a custom enum disassembler (for VB and C# only) that allows the user to decide whether enum fields should be shown in alphabetical order or by value.

Tcdev.DsmPlugin:
http://tcdev.free.fr/
Dependency Structure Matrix PlugIn for .NET Reflector.

ExceptionFinder:
http://www.codeplex.com/ExFinderReflector
This is a Reflector add-in that will find all of the exceptions that might be thrown by a method.

Reflector.Snippy:
http://jasonhaley.com/blog/post/2008/11/23/ReflectorSnippy-Addin.aspx
Snippy is a light weight snippet compiler.

Reflector.Graph (refined):
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/method_deps_p1.aspx
Diagrams with Reflector and the Graph Plugin (Part 1)
Also see refractor (https://sourceforge.net/projects/refractor/)

xmi4dotnet:
http://mercury.it.swin.edu.au/swinbrain/index.php?title=Xmi4dotnet
Use Xmi4DotNet to export your model into a UML package to simplify drawing.

CodeShortcut:
http://jasonhaley.com/addins/
CodeShortcut addin provides a 'Create Shortcut' context menu item for creating a code:// shortcut on your desktop to the item you currently have selected.

Reflector.CodeDom:
http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/-.net-reflector-meets-the-codedom/
Plug-in that produces the CodeDom code needed to create the contents of the assembly.

Reflector.VulcanLanguage:
http://www.fabtoys.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=26&Itemid=33
Reflector's add-in to support Vulcan language.

Reflector.PowerCommands:
http://powercommands.codeplex.com/

New Post: Does BizTalkDisassembler works with current version of Reflector?

mclean — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:58:16 GMT

As discussion name is, does BizTalkDisassembler works with current version (5.1.5.0) of Reflector?

Because i have some problems extracting BizTalk artifacts, can't find button "Disassemble...". Reflector's "Export..." button doesn't help, only extracts C# (or what you choose from standard list) code.

I tried extract schemas from BizTalk 2006 assembly.

New Post: How can I find the type of the object which calls a method (which is generally not the same type than the IMemberReference.DeclaringType)?

jasonhaley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:11:58 GMT

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are looking for, but maybe this will help.

You metion... "when I put my mouse over the ”e“ local variable I can see “Employee e // Local Variable”. But I cannot retrieve this information.".

I'm guessing you want to create some smart mapping that 'knows' that SimpleExample.Company.Working() uses an instance of Employee not just any child of Person. If that is what you are trying to do, then you picked a nice challenge for yourself.

You can see why Reflector does what it does if you look at the IL version of your SimpleExample.Company.Working(). The call to Work() is a callvirt of the Person.Work() ... it isn't simple a call to Employee.Work() like the C# makes it look like. So my guess is you're going to need to parse the IL and decipher the callvirt instructions in a smarter way to determine a better type mapping. Its doable ... but I think you're going to need to get real familiar with IL and how it works (but maybe not). The most beneficial thing in the line: e.Work(); maybe that the variable type of e is Employee.

You might be able to use the LanguageWriterHelper to help you determine what the C# is showing, for example the e.Work() is a IMethodInvokeExpression, that has a Method and a Target. The Target is an IVariableReferenceExpression ... that has a VariableType of an ITypeReference of SimpleExample.Employee.

Information on the LanguageWriterHelper: http://jasonhaley.com/blog/post/2008/12/02/Reflector-Addin-LanguageWriterHelper.aspx

Good luck!

New Post: How to add the codemetrics addin to VS?

rp — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:58:54 GMT

It's not a VS addin, but a Reflector addin. Does that answer your question?

New Post: How can I find the type of the object which calls a method (which is generally not the same type than the IMemberReference.DeclaringType)?

Nigo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:03:58 GMT

Hi,

I am actually working on a reflector add-in. This add-in is a smart analyzer which can be configured to find some relationships between methods. That is quite the same that the .NET Reflector analyze does but the main improvement compared to the current static analyzers is:

Consider the simple following example:

namespace SimpleExemple
{
    public class Company
    {
        public void Working()
        {
            Employee e = new Employee();
            e.Go();
            e.Work();
            e.Leave();
        }
    }

    abstract public class Person
    {
        abstract public void Go();

        abstract public void Work();

        abstract public void Leave();
    }

     public class Employee:Person
    {

        public override void Go()
        {
            // Go to the company
        }

        public override void Work()
        {
            // Do some work
        }

        public override void Leave()
        {
            // Go back home
        }
    }

    public class Manager:Person
    {

        public override void Go()
        {
            // Go to the company by car (big one)
        }

        public override void Work()
        {
            // Do some manager work
        }

        public override void Leave()
        {
            // Go back home by car (big one)
        }
    }

}

A Manager is a Person and an Employee is a Person too.

A Person can Goes (to the company) Works (in the company) and Leaves (the company).

The company “Working” method creates a new Employee then the employee Goes, Works and Leaves.

In this example a Manager never works (the function Manager.Works() is never called, it is just an example I have nothing against the managers ;) ).

Let us analyze the Manager.Work() method in .NET Reflector:

SimpleExample.Manager.Work() : Void

Depends On

Used By

SimpleExample.Company.Working() : Void

Actually, the Manager.Work() method is not called in the Company.Working() method. But the Manager.Work() overrides the base method Person.Work() and it is this method which is referenced in the code. This is the principle of virtual (or abstract) methods; the right method call is determinate on runtime.

I want to circumvent that problem finding the strong typed object type which actually calls the Work() method. If I find the Employee type, I will know that is the Employee.Work() which is called.

So that is my question: How can I find the type of the object which calls a method (which is generally not the same type than the IMemberReference.DeclaringType)?

The disassembler in .NET Reflector gives me the information if I disassemble the Company.Working() method: when I put my mouse over the ”e“ local variable I can see “Employee e // Local Variable”. But I cannot retrieve this information.

Do you know how can I find it? Thanks.

New Post: How to add the codemetrics addin to VS?

c_v_nag — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:48:23 GMT

Someone please specify how to add the codemetrics addin to VS...