The Future of .NET Reflector (from Lutz Roeder)

Red Gate ^[1] will be responsible for the future development ^[2] of .NET Reflector ^[3], the popular tool authored by Lutz Roeder ^[4]. I’m very happy to read that Red Gate will offer this tool for free to the community. Lutz did a great job and the feedback from developers around the world brings up this tool to the top 10 tools for .NET developers ^[5].

Use Reflector if you need to:

• Explore .NET assemblies in an easy-to-understand, natural way
• Understand the relationships between classes and methods
• Find where types are instantiated and exposed
• Check that your code has been correctly obfuscated before release
• ...or if you have lost your source code and have still the DLL/EXE (well, that was one reason I was very happy that .NET Reflector exists)

At codeplex.com you’ll find more than 30 add-ins for .NET Reflector ^[6]. My favorite one is the FileDisassembler ^[7] from Denis Bauer ^[8].