Exploring Assembly in .NET

The Intermediate Language Disassembler (ildasm.exe),which comes with the .NET SDK allows to view a dll contents,manifest CIL code and Metadata…

ildasm can be loaded from command prompt(start –> Programs –> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 – > Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt

for demonstration i have developed a class with contains a method for getting the TotalPrice

   1: using System;

   2: using System.Collections.Generic;

   3: using System.Linq;

   4: using System.Web;

   5:  

   6: namespace www.buddhasmiles.blogspot.com

   7: {

   8:     public class buddha_class

   9:     {

  10:         public decimal GetTotalPrice()

  11:         {

  12:             decimal grandTotalPrice = 0, itemTotalPrice = 0, itemDiscountedTotalPrice = 0, itemTotalPriceCommodtity = 0;

  13:  

  14:             itemDiscountedTotalPrice = Convert.ToDecimal("100");

  15:             grandTotalPrice += itemDiscountedTotalPrice;

  16:  

  17:             return grandTotalPrice;

  18:         }

  19:  

  20:     }

  21: }

i open the dll using the ildasm and here is the output

for viewing the CIL just double click each method

Lutz Roeder’s Reflector( http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet.)

Another free tool similar like ildasm …a great s/w where we can see the code in multiple languages