ILSpy (free .net decompiler): possible replacement for .net Reflector.

Today I am going to share about and very simple yet helpful tool named ILSpy. It could be a possible replacement for the “.net Reflector” which is now a commercial version by Red Get Software.

ILSpy is a useful and yet not that much feature rich tool, may be because of its early stage, however; the rood map shows that it could turn out to be a handy tool in near future.

Users can download this from the http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ilspy.ashx. Did I mention that its open source and absolutely free!

Some interesting features are

Assembly browsing

IL Disassembly

Decompilation to C#

• Supports lambdas and 'yield return'
• Shows XML documentation

Saving of resources

Save decompiled assembly as .csproj

Search for types/methods/properties (substring)

Hyperlink-based type/method/property navigation

Base/Derived types navigation

Navigation history

BAML to XAML decompiler

Save Assembly as C# Project

Find usage of field/method

Extensible via plugins (MEF)

Please visit the home site of Ilspy for more information on this tool.

Until next time, happy coding.