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100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace AutoDiagramer
{
    #region DotNetObject CLASS
    /// <summary>
    /// A simple helper class, that one has one method, that
    /// is used to determine if an input file is an actual
    /// CLR type file.
    /// </summary>
    public class DotNetObject
    {
        #region Public Methods
        /// <summary>
        /// Return true if the file specified is a real CLR type, otherwise false is returned.
        /// False is also returned in the case of an exception being caught
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="file">A string representing the file to check for CLR validity</param>
        /// <returns>True if the file specified is a real CLR type, otherwise false is returned.
        /// False is also returned in the case of an exception being caught</returns>
        public static bool isDotNetAssembly(String file)
        {

            uint peHeader;
            uint peHeaderSignature;
            ushort machine;
            ushort sections;
            uint timestamp;
            uint pSymbolTable;
            uint noOfSymbol;
            ushort optionalHeaderSize;
            ushort characteristics;
            ushort dataDictionaryStart;
            uint[] dataDictionaryRVA = new uint[16];
            uint[] dataDictionarySize = new uint[16];

            //get the input stream
            Stream fs = new FileStream(@file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

            try
            {
                
                BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(fs);
                //PE Header starts @ 0x3C (60). Its a 4 byte header.
                fs.Position = 0x3C;
                peHeader = reader.ReadUInt32();
                //Moving to PE Header start location...
                fs.Position = peHeader;
                peHeaderSignature = reader.ReadUInt32();
                //We can also show all these value, but we will be       
                //limiting to the CLI header test.
                machine = reader.ReadUInt16();
                sections = reader.ReadUInt16();
                timestamp = reader.ReadUInt32();
                pSymbolTable = reader.ReadUInt32();
                noOfSymbol = reader.ReadUInt32();
                optionalHeaderSize = reader.ReadUInt16();
                characteristics = reader.ReadUInt16();
                /*
                  Now we are at the end of the PE Header and from here, the
                  PE Optional Headers starts...
                  To go directly to the datadictionary, we'll increase the      
                  stream�s current position to with 96 (0x60). 96 because,
                  28 for Standard fields
                  68 for NT-specific fields
                  From here DataDictionary starts...and its of total 128 bytes. DataDictionay has 16 directories in total,
                  doing simple maths 128/16 = 8.
                  So each directory is of 8 bytes.
             
                  In this 8 bytes, 4 bytes is of RVA and 4 bytes of Size.
                  btw, the 15th directory consist of CLR header! if its 0, its not a CLR file :)

                  */
                dataDictionaryStart = Convert.ToUInt16(Convert.ToUInt16(fs.Position) + 0x60);
                fs.Position = dataDictionaryStart;
                for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++)
                {
                    dataDictionaryRVA[i] = reader.ReadUInt32();
                    dataDictionarySize[i] = reader.ReadUInt32();
                }
                if (dataDictionaryRVA[14] == 0)
                {
                    fs.Close();
                    return false;
                }
                else
                {
                    fs.Close();
                    return true;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return false;
            }
            finally
            {
                fs.Close();
            }

        }
        #endregion
    }
    #endregion
}

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