How to Open or Read .DLL Content?

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How to Read Contents of Dll Files?

Posted 30-Jan-13 21:03pm

Neel_Sharma

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jan-13 3:08am

What is that DLL? The purpose?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-01-30T21:07:00

Solution 1

It depends on what is it. If this is an .NET assembly, you can reference it, or you can load it using System.Assembly.LoadFrom and use Reflection. If this is not, you can use P/Invoke or load it using LoadLibrary (Windows API), but first you still need to use P/Invoke to invoke Windows API. There can be other users: read PE file with a binary reader, extract resources, etc. Pick what you want first.

—SA

Posted 30-Jan-13 21:07pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Balamurugan1989 31-Jan-13 4:24am

Superb SA....

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jan-13 10:30am

Thank you.
—SA

**Joezer BH** · Answer 2 · 2013-01-30T22:03:00

Solution 3

Hi Neelmani,

Try downloading resource hacker from this site. This helps to view the resources of a dll,ocx,exe files etc..... Hope this helps

Cheers,
Edo

Posted 30-Jan-13 22:03pm

Joezer BH

Updated 30-Jan-13 22:05pm

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AdityaPratapSingh · Answer 3 · 2013-01-30T21:13:00

Solution 2

use .NET Reflector
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Posted 30-Jan-13 21:13pm

AdityaPratapSingh