Tuesday, April 6, 2010

.Net tools and utilities

CLRVer.exe - Lists installed CLR versions on a system. Note that it does not list the .net frameworks installed on a system. e.g. .net framework 3.0 uses CLR version 2.0.XXX.
CorFlags.exe - Look at header information emitted in a managed module
DumpBin.exe - Look at header information emitted in a managed module
AL.exe - Assembly linker. Command line utility to create assembly using modules and data (resource) files.
ILASM.Exe - IL assembler
ILDASM.Exe - IL Disassembler
PEVerify.exe - Examines all of assemblies methods and notifiies of any method that contain unsafe code.
NGen.exe - Native code generator. Generate native code during application installation and stores it in a file on the machine.
Obfuscator - scramble names of all private symbols in assembly metadata
TlbImp.exe - TLB (Type library) importer
TlbExp.exe - TLB (Type library) exporter
RegASM.exe - register assembly as a COM component.
SN.exe -Generate public/private key pair.
GACUtil.exe - install/uninstall strongly named assemblies into GAC (Global Assembly Cache)
FxCop.exe - Application that analyzes .net assemblies and report information about the assemblies, such as possible design, localization, performance and security improvements.
FulLogvw.exe - Assembly binding log viewer. It displays details for failed assembly binds. This information helps you diagnose why the .NET Framework cannot locate an assembly at run time.
wsdl.exe - Command line tool to generate proxy class for XML web services.
BinDiff.Exe - Comapare two windows executable files. This tool is very useful to find out files changed between two builds of release/product.

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