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Hello, I apologize very much if this question has already been asked, or is hard to understand. I have not been able to find the answer after much searching.
Does VB.NET have anything similar to Java's JDK source code? When I used to work in Eclipse, I could right click and view the generated code, or "look under-the-hood" so to speak. I found this feature very helpful in understanding what was happening behind the scenes, and it helped me to write better, more simplified code.
I have so far been working with Visual Studio 2010's Object Browser, and I have also been looking at the generated designer files, but these often do not drill down far enough.
Thank you very much for any help.

A: 

you are talking about reflector?

Fredou
A: 

ScottGu has an old blog post about this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/01/16/net-framework-library-source-code-now-available.aspx

You can also use the .NET Reflector to peek into the code for any .NET dll, but keep in mind it won't look like the code in Visual Studio :)

http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

David
Thank you for the blog post link--I was very happy to learn that Microsoft has decided to open up some of their source code!
Mr.E
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The best program to do this is called .NET Reflector and you can download it from here: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

It lets you see executables and DLL's under the hood

icemanind
Thank you! I will have to try it out...
Mr.E