Question

To start off, while I was searching around for answers, I found these:

Reverse Engineering a C# Solution

Are there good tools for C# reverse engineering?

Above url seem like a possible duplicate. I did not find any answers relating to my question around the web so I am asking it here. What I would like to ask is, Can I take a C# solution build generated by Visual Studio 2008 Professional version and generate the source code?

I do not care about UML diagrams like the above questions posted in those url, I want to get source code.

My application is in ASP.NET but I only have a solution build for it, and I need source code which I don’t have.

Answer 1

http://www.reflector.net is great for this.

For example, here is some C# code:

using System;

namespace HW
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Foo Bar");
        }
    }
}

When compiled, Visual Studio generates the following files:

Reflector decompiles the code like this:

Like TomTom says, it isn’t the same code, but this is still useful to discover how a program works.

Hope this helps