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Analyzing a .NET Executable or DLL without .NET Installed

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15 Feb 2013CPOL 67.7K   1.4K   68  
A pure Win32 API application that can analyze a .NET binary without .NET installed
This article describes how to add to a Win32 API, C++ application, the ability to browse for executables (.exe) files, and to determine whether they are .NET ones, and if so, to analyze their classes and display a list of them, without having .NET installed on the machine running it.

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Michael Haephrati is a music composer, an inventor and an expert specializes in software development and information security, who has built a unique perspective which combines technology and the end user experience. He is the author of a the book Learning C++ , which teaches C++ 20, and was published in August 2022.

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