Is there a way to determine the language in which an assembly was originally written? I was considering looking at the referenced assemblies or something similar but wondered if it’s as simple as a specific assembly attribute or such…
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Is there a way to determine the language in which an assembly was originally written? I was considering looking at the referenced assemblies or something similar but wondered if it’s as simple as a specific assembly attribute or such…
There is no specific attribute. Just hints. If you see an assembly reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic then the odds are high that it was written in VB.NET. If you see a
<CppImplementationDetails>class then it was written in C++/CLI. Absence of these hints makes C# likely. Ignoring the possibilities of a Mono assembly or the dozens of language ports to .NET