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[xmen]

Is there any way to recover code from netduino 2 and decompile it ?

[Chris Walker]

Hi xmen,

If you have the original DLLs, you can use Red Gate Reflector or similar to "decompile" the IL code.

The special version of IL code that NETMF uses is compressed, and there are no off-the-shelf tools which can "decompile" (or disassemble) it. Given a few weekends (or a few weeks) one could probably create an in-reverse version of MetaDataProcessor (especially the C# Xamarin version) which turned PE files into DLLs...which you could then "decompile".

That said...if you obfuscated your IL at any point...that would make it harder (or near-impossible) to get back original source.

Does that help?

Chris

[xmen]

So if I deploy my app on netduino I can not get it back from it ? And how do I obfuscate the .net framework app that going in netduino ?

 

Thank you

[Nevyn]

If you have the original DLLs, you can use Red Gate Reflector or similar to "decompile" the IL code.

 

I switched to ILSpy when Red Gate started to charge for Reflector.

 

Regards,

Mark