Read dll file content

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Hi friends,

I need to read the file contents from the dll file using java or C#. That dll content which i am going to include in my project but i dont know how read it. Any one can help me to know the file content of the dll file.

Any answers could be appreciated..

thanks in advance..

regars,

Sasi

Posted 24-Aug-11 5:48am

ramuksasi

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Solution 3

Why don't you try Reflections

MSDN Reflection Overview[^]
C# .Net Tutorial Reflection[^]
reflection-examples[^]
Finally on CP we have A .NET assembly viewer[^]

Hope it helps..

Posted 24-Aug-11 7:35am

the headless nick

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the headless nick 29-Aug-11 2:09am

thanks:))

Solution 1

A lot depends on the type of dll this is. If it is .net then simply adding it to a solution should make the api visible.

Posted 24-Aug-11 6:10am

Nagy Vilmos

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24T06:14:00

I don't think you understand what are you asking about. The DLL is in an executable file format; this is not data you could "read" in any sensible way. OK, you can read it as a chunk of binary data and even parse the content, but it does not mean you can use it.

However, a DLL file may or may not contain some resources you could extract if that is what you are after.

Also, the native Windows DLL file is foreign to both .NET (speaking of C# projects) and Java. You can only use it in .NET via P/Invoke and in Java via JNI.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PInvoke[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNI[^].

—SA