Be sure to enable the visual studio extensions. Then you can right-click things in visual studio and jump to definition in Reflector. Very nice. A friend pointed out they're going to start charging for the free version. Not much, $35. I'm willing to pay that sure.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah Kelly... I think for example I should have been using it yesterday for > figuring out log4net. In fact, I may swing back around to that problem with > this tool in mind. > > Matt- Pure curiousity and learning I totally get and yeah. Makes sense. > There's enough here to warrant a second look. Thanks guys and if you have > some other uses please keep sending them. It's REALLY interesting to me. > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Frank Schwieterman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> There are a lot of uses, I remember one that stands out... From my >> C++ days, I had assumed List<> was implemented as a linked list. >> Using reflector I realized its an array. When I discovered this, I >> had a serious performance problem as I was relying on a linked list >> implementation. Very embarrassing, and a bit of a trip when so many >> people said "well of course a List<> is an array". >> >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Ian Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have used it for a number of the items Matt listed. Also: >> > >> > Finding bugs in third party libs that I don't have source access to >> > (sometimes patching the library in question) >> > Figuring out remoting errors (back when remoting was used) >> > Seeing how code compiles into different languages >> > Figuring out what classes implement a particular interface >> > Figuring out how .NET implement primitive types >> > Looking at generated IL to analyze performance implications >> > >> > I will never use [,] for arrays, jagged ([][]) is incredibly faster >> > >> > I am sure there are more >> > -Ian >> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> So a couple people now are surprised.. nay, shocked that I don't use >> >> Reflector and I'm pretty sure that means I would have more ninjitsu if >> >> I did. What problems are you guys solving with it? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
