Is it possible to extend the "Analyze" feature of Reflector?

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Is it possible to extend the "Analyze" feature of Reflector?

Hi There,

Does anyone know if it's possible to extend the analyze functionality of Reflector? When you select a type and click "Analyze" and then in that analyze window you get the options of "Depends On", "Used By", "Exposed By" or "Instantiated By". I would like to get that output and send it to a file.

Thanks in advance, Allan

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There is a list addins for reflector here and the first one seems to do what you want. I have not tried it myself.

Update: A better link to codeplex for reflector add ins link text It includes a file disassembler add in

The first link I posted at codebetter.com is pretty old.

Edit:

You might want to try NDepend instead

Mike Two 2009-10-02 13:07:57

Yeah, i've looked at the addins for reflector on codeplex and they didn't have what I was looking for. I'm not looking at taking a binary and outputting the source code, what I want is to find out for a type or class, where it's been called.

Allan Palmer 2009-10-02 13:19:43

You might want something other than Reflector like NDepend. Updated answer

Mike Two 2009-10-02 13:23:30

To the best of my knowledge, the Analyze part of Reflector is not easily extended. However if a all you want to get is a listing of what is shown in the Analyze tree (it is a TreeView control) ... then I maybe able to help you with this. It sounds like it would fit nicely into the PowerCommands for Reflector project I work on (http://powercommands.codeplex.com/).

Are you just wanting to export a listing of the (unexpanded) nodes in the tree ... say under 'Used By'? I could write a export or copy as text to output the node list as text. Is that about what you are looking for?

Jason Haley 2009-10-11 16:08:10

Yeah, exactly. When I click on a Type inside an assembly and you get the option to analyze, all that information would be awesome to be available for export. Bonus would be the ability to export-analyze all Types in an assembly. Thanks!

Allan Palmer 2009-10-12 12:53:21

I'll see what I can do.

Jason Haley 2009-10-12 23:36:07

Sorry it took so long, but the latest build of PowerCommands for Reflector (1.3.1) now contains a command named 'Export Analyzer Tree' - which will allow you to export the tree to a text file. Let me know what you think (if you get a chance).

Jason Haley 2009-10-19 14:40:41

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