C# Decompiler

[pmegan]

Can anybody recommend a decent C# decompiler? We had a pretty shadey developer quit recently and all the source code he was working on mysteriously disappeared.

Thanks,
Pat

 

[chiph]

You should be using source control and nightly backups of your repository to prevent this from happening in the future. Good ones are SourceGear Vault (looks just like MS Visual Source Safe, but doesn't corrupt it's repository nightly) and Subversion (free!).

See:

http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DotNetDecompilerTests

for some reviews of decompilers.

Chip H.


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[pmegan]

Thanks for the link Chip.

We have everything in source safe, but he was here before the programming dept really took shape so had his own copy of it running on a remote server. We found out after he left that he was throwing old non-functional copies onto the live server.

Pat

 

[stevexff]

Google for 'Lutz Roeder'.

He has a cool introspection tool on his site called the .NET Reflector which I use quite a lot. It will disassemble the code into a number of .NET languages. I have heard there are add-ins which will write the code out to source files, but I haven't had need to try this so I can't comment on how good it is.

 

[stsuing]

Here is the link for the above post.

http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/