Listing functions of an unmanaged DLL at runtime in c#

Question

Hi,

Is it possible to obtain a list of functions declared in an unmanaged DLL? I want to create this list in a c# program.

Using dumpbin or System.Reflection.Assembly is not possible.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi there.

As far as I know, the only way you can do this either:

• Use a utility (such as dumpbin) and analyse its output from your C# code.
• Open the target DLL file and manually work out where the export section of the file is located and read that.

You might need the help of too like PE Explorer or similar to help you get up and running by showing you location of the exports in a file.

If you want to do it without a utility, then you will need to understand the PE file format for a Windows DLL file and read the exports section.

Check out this link.

Cheers. Jas.