How to retrieve code files from dll?

Amol

After Publishing the website,now i want to retrieve the code from dll which is hosted because i lost the original code project from the Hard drive

Regards,
Amol

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Vulpes15y ago
Well, there are other disassemblers including this new free one from JetBrains (http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/) which is still in its infancy and is unlikely therefore be as advanced as Redgate Reflector at the present time.

However, none of them will be able to recover comments or the original local variable names (they'll come up with substitutes) because these are not preserved in the MSIL itself. When a C# application is compiled, local variables are replaced with numbered storage locations and comments are discarded.

There's no other way to recover source code apart from this.
Amol15y ago
Is there any other way? Because this looks like not working for me...
Vulpes15y ago
As long as the dll has not been obfuscated, you'll need to use a disassembler to recover the source code.

Check out Redgate Reflector (http://reflector.red-gate.com/download.aspx?TreatAsUpdate=1) which, unfortunately, is no longer free.

Notice that you won't be able to recover the original local variable names or comments.