How to find assembly dependencies???

15 Nov 2005 7:00 PM

Peter Franks

Is there a tool or method to find out all assembly dependencies for a
particular .net binary (.exe or .dll)?

I have a case where a deployed application is apparently missing a
referenced assembly, but I can't determine which one...

Thanks for any info.

15 Nov 2005 7:35 PM

Lars Behrmann

Hi Peter,

the popular reflactor tool should help you. You can download
it here http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Cheers
Lars Behrmann

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Peter Franks schrieb:

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> Is there a tool or method to find out all assembly dependencies for a
> particular .net binary (.exe or .dll)?
>
> I have a case where a deployed application is apparently missing a
> referenced assembly, but I can't determine which one...
>
> Thanks for any info.

15 Nov 2005 11:06 PM

Peter Franks

Lars Behrmann wrote:

> the popular reflactor tool should help you. You can download
> it here http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

Excellent -- thanks. Didn't even think of using Reflector for that...

17 Nov 2005 8:42 PM

Richard Grimes

Peter Franks wrote:

> Is there a tool or method to find out all assembly dependencies for a
> particular .net binary (.exe or .dll)?
>
> I have a case where a deployed application is apparently missing a
> referenced assembly, but I can't determine which one...

ILDASM.

The manifest will list all the referenced assemblies, for example:

assembly extern MyLib
{
}

and it will also list the DLLs that you call through platform invoke,
for example:

..module extern kernel32

Richard

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