Reflector
Originally published on my old blog at cumps.be on February 15, 2005.
One of the tools I had in my toolbox was Reflector. This tool is written by Lutz Roeder and allows you to examine a .NET assembly. Through the use of reflection it can display all namespaces, classes, methods, properties, events and fields in the DLL.
It is possible to view the code in IL, C#, VB.NET and Delphi. Some of the most useful features are the Call Graph and the Callee Graph.
The Call Graph shows you which items are used by a given method, while the Callee Graph displays all the methods that call a given method.
You can get Reflector from Redgate, which took it over from Lutz Roeder.
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