Re: website in DLL, need to access the code

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Before working on anything I would get the company to put in some sort of
process to keep this from happenning.

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

The plugin you will want to use is ..
http://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/FileDisassembler.aspx

Cheers,

Greg Young
MVP - C#
http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung

"Karina" <Karina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Greg,

The old programmer left and he deleted the source code and left the DLLs.
Getting the source code, unfortunately is NOT an option.

What is "reflector"? Where can I get more information on that option?

Thank YOU, Karina

"Greg Young" wrote:

Generally one builds a .dll from code (it is also quite common to only
deploy a .dll for varying reasons)... do you not have the source?

You could do something along the lines of using reflector to reverse
engineer the dll (there is a plugin the generate files) but you would be
missing alot of important information such as comments etc.

The best option would be to get the source code.

Cheers,

Greg Young
MVP - C#
http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung

"Karina" <Karina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello:

I am taking over someone else's code and my users are experiencing tons
of
problems but when I try to go into the source code to edit and try to
fix
these problems, I realize that all the old programmer's code is in DLLs
so
I
cannot access the source from anywhere. It's really becoming a
problem.
So..my question is twofold, is there a way to extract the code from the
DLL
(probably not), if not, what are some other options I have????

Visual Studio 2005
Asp.net 2.0
C#

Thank you, Karina





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