No, you don't - but the experience in reflector is *so* much nicer than any text editor can be when you're poking through the source trying to follow how things flow. One click and you're there, and you can go back just as easily, search every symbol in the IL across assemblies. It rocks for code spelunking even if you do have the source.
-Chris From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Foley Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I don't use .Net Reflector (be gentle) Note: You don't need reflector to get the log4net source. On Feb 2, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Justin Bozonier 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] <mailto:altnetseattle%[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] <mailto:altnetseattle%[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] <mailto:altnetseattle%[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.
