Is it possible to reflect a running .NET process?

Question

Dear ladies and sirs.

I have an application with dynamic types emitted at run-time. In order to inspect the generated .NET code, we save the dynamically generated assemblies and use the Reflector.

I am wondering whether there is a way to reflect them the Reflector way while the respective process is running, without having to save the dynamic assemblies? In other words to have sort of "Attach to process ..." button in Reflector.

Thanks.

EDIT: The only raison d'etre for the feature is to reflect on dynamically generated assemblies.

Answer 1

There is a running assembly add-in for Reflector (http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente/articles/438539.aspx). However, I suspect that it simply helps retrieve paths for running assemblies, with the assemblies subsequently loaded from disk by Reflector. However, it's probably worth a try. Also, creating reflector add-ins isn't all that difficult, so you might be able to extend the running assembly add-in approach to automatically save the assembly to disk so that it can be loaded by Reflector (assuming the existing add-in doesn't already do this.)