Traverse a c# method and anazlye the method body

Question

Hi,

Whats the easiest way to traverse a methodinfo in c#?

I want to traverse the method body and find field-references and such and retrieves the types.

In System.Reflection there is:

mi.GetMethodBody().GetILAsByteArray()

which is kinda low-level and would require "some" work before I would be able to traverse the body.

I know Cecil exists, but there's a problem in loading an in memory assembly with cecil. The assembly i'm working with is't always "on disk" it can be an in memory assembly compiled from eg. Boo, and I wan't a clean solution without writing the assembly temporary to disk.

What other alternatives is there out there for this?

Answer 1

This thing should help: Reflection based CIL reader. It operates on byte array obtained by calling GetILAsByteArray()