ILDASM and CLL in C#

Vineet Kumar Saini

Hi Friends....

I know when we want to see the assembly then we use ILDASM cll.exe . I want to know what is the meaning of ILDASM and CLL ? Please explain anyone ?

Thanks.....

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Vulpes14y ago
Accepted answer
'ildasm' means the intermediate language disassembler.

When applied to a .NET assembly, it shows the intermediate language (IL) and metadata contained in the assembly.

I would imagine cll.exe is some .NET executable you have - it's not a standard .NET utility to my knowledge.
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Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
Hi Vineet,

LDASM is a tool provided in C# to view and read the assembly content in manifest view. This tool is supplied along with the Visual Studio .NET you are using. It is also available along with .NET SDK. To access this tool, you have to run the ildasm.exe available in C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\\bin.

For more clarity, consider a simple example and see how the assembly content related to the example can be viewed. The example is mentioned below:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
namespace Application1 {
class sampleClass {
static void Main(string[] args) {
Console.WriteLine("Testing ILDASM");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}

Refer

http://www.dotnet-guide.com/What-is-ildasm-in-dot-net.HTML

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa309387%28v=vs.71%29.aspx

Thanks
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