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I know a lot of people here balk at the idea of paying for tooling, but Red Gate's Reflector[1] is absolutely amazing for situations like this. Not only is it a

by Permit 12y ago

I know a lot of people here balk at the idea of paying for tooling, but Red Gate's Reflector[1] is absolutely amazing for situations like this. Not only is it a decompiler, but it allows you to decompile at debug-time and step into third party libraries. Assuming they haven't been obfuscated, this is an extremely useful tool. I've used it to track down a number of issues within Visual Studio itself and within some of the non-open sourced components of Roslyn. [1] http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/ http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflecto...

wffurr 12y ago
You are justifying closed-source tools by using a closed-source tool to debug your closed-source tools?
- allegory 12y ago
  That's exactly how the windows ecosystem works. Everything is pay per view. By the time we've got the PO's signed if it was open source then I'd have solved the problem at hand. To get around this, defensive purchasing is required: at least one VS ultimate license, at least one MSDN sub, ANTS profiler, IDA Pro, Azure VM allocation ready to roll for test machines and two guys who actually know something about all this. This is the safety belt cost: about $30000 + $120k a person
voltagex_ 12y ago
Don't pay for Reflector. Throw JetBrains some more money - DotPeek [1] integrates nicely with ReSharper, or you can use it on its own for free. I think the latest build can also provide PDBs to Visual Studio on the fly by acting as a source server (insane). After years of Reflector being a free tool, Redgate added a time-bomb to new downloads and released a statement [2] [1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110205074826/http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/announcement https://web.archive.org/web/20110205074826/http://www.red-ga...

by Permit 12y ago

wffurr 12y ago

You are justifying closed-source tools by using a closed-source tool to debug your closed-source tools?

allegory 12y ago
That's exactly how the windows ecosystem works. Everything is pay per view. By the time we've got the PO's signed if it was open source then I'd have solved the problem at hand. To get around this, defensive purchasing is required: at least one VS ultimate license, at least one MSDN sub, ANTS profiler, IDA Pro, Azure VM allocation ready to roll for test machines and two guys who actually know something about all this. This is the safety belt cost: about $30000 + $120k a person

voltagex_ 12y ago

Don't pay for Reflector. Throw JetBrains some more money - DotPeek [1] integrates nicely with ReSharper, or you can use it on its own for free. I think the latest build can also provide PDBs to Visual Studio on the fly by acting as a source server (insane). After years of Reflector being a free tool, Redgate added a time-bomb to new downloads and released a statement [2] [1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110205074826/http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/announcement https://web.archive.org/web/20110205074826/http://www.red-ga...