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Viewing software under the hood at runtime
kedinik
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I'm looking for a development environment that will allow me to:
1) Build and run a program
2) View all the class definitions, variables, function calls, etc, that exist at runtime.
I believe that there may be a .NET solution for me, where all the existing objects in the primary program self-describe themselves to a secondary program, but I haven't been able to find it.
1) Build and run a program
2) View all the class definitions, variables, function calls, etc, that exist at runtime.
I believe that there may be a .NET solution for me, where all the existing objects in the primary program self-describe themselves to a secondary program, but I haven't been able to find it.
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.Net Reflector
If you install with Visual Studio, you'll be able to even set breakpoints and step into the assemblies that you've reflected.
If you want to be able to step through the .Net framework source code, you just need to point to the Microsoft source servers
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx
...unless you're talking about programmatically looking at software at runtime, in which case you need reflection.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about; I want to write a program that can generically summarize the runtime behavior of other programs, without needing to create specific breakpoints each time.
Thank you all for the advice.