decompile assembly into project

Question

I will like to see the value of some private variables of the Regex class located on System.dll. If curious why I will like to twick that class look at this question.

So I will have to decompile C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\Profile\Client\System.dll

I am able to decompile that with reflector:

Now my question is Is there a way of creating a solution of visual studio with all those classes. There are hundreds of classes in there and I do not want to go one by one placing them to my new project.

Rochellerochemont

Don't go there. You can see private variable with the debugger. You can even get them out of the object by using Reflection. – Piroshki

The problem is that the private variable _index get's set = 0 if the match fails. I will like to retrive it on the middle of the method. maybe I could do that from a different thread try to access it several times. that will be very unsafe lol – Rochellerochemont

This seems like a very roundabout way to get the maximum position of a decimal value in a string if a match fails. Surely there's a simpler way to look for it? Are you searching through gigabytes of text? – Abingdon

Side note: decompiling assemblies with the goal to include resulting sources into your own project may have legal side effects. Check if you care. – Ivonne

Answer 1

Both ILSpy and JustDecompile allow exporting to a Visual Studio project.

Kebab

Answer 2

If you are wanting to create the whole project look at http://www.reflector.net/ it has a addin called FileDisassembler http://www.reflector.net/add-ins/ that will do just what you are looking for.

Kiser