could not understand lines of code after decompiling a dll

Nepethya Rana

I decompiled the one dll and exported to Project/Solution. I tried to understand lines of codes but i could not understand following lines. Type type; object objectValue = RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(type.GetField("processInfo", BindingFlags.IgnoreCase | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue((object) Process.GetCurrentProcess())); strFrom = StringType.FromObject(objectValue.GetType().GetField("processName", BindingFlags.IgnoreCase | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue(objectValue))); Logger.write("process: " + strFrom, 1); i did not understand what these lines of codes are doing. Could you please explain. Thank you.

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Nepethya Rana9y ago
Those codes are in utility class. And above asked codes in catch block, trying to get process name if Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName threw exception. Those does not get built due to unassigned local variable 'type'.
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Mangesh G9y ago
HI Gaurav,

Here the First line is trying to get the Value of the current Process as not sure about the type of the Object so it is using the RuntimeHelpers.GetObjectValue to Box the Obkect to Value type.
This value is trying to get the current process

an from that ObjectValue strform is trying to get the Process name

for Reference with the ObjectValue please refer
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compilerservices.runtimehelpers.getobjectvalue(v=vs.110).aspx
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