DnSpy was great. The author (d4d) did many great things for the world of .net reversing and binary analysis, including dnspy and dnlib. One day, i don't know why, they archived most of their repositories.
I'm glad electrokill stepped up and maintains dnspyex now. This also shows how resilient open source can be - as long as someone wants to work on the project, it can go on forever.
I think the simple answer here is that we grew up. Most of us in the scene at that time and creating these types of tools were between 16-20 years old.
>One day, i don't know why, they archived most of their repositories.
Sounds like whytheluckystiff.
Love this tool, used it mod a Unity game and learn all the internals to see how to integrate my mod with the base game. Was an invaluable resource. It also taught me a lot about how they made that game (Lethal Company) and how it was truly made to ship/get the idea out the door and not for perfection/maintainable code.
~~IIRC the maintainer was like 15 years old?~~ Edit: My mistake, the maintainer is 18, https://github.com/ElektroKill
Used this to debug an application crash in a vendor's proprietary windows app recently, and I was able to file a detailed bug report. (Though they decided it's notabug, womp womp.)
You can install it with winget, but it's very particular about whether you're debugging a win32 or win64 app and it's a bit of a pain to get it to install both or just win32. I wonder if it would be possible to have both bundled in the same installer and just automatically relaunch the app if you try to debug a program with a mismatching arch. Or just download from the releases page...
Used dnSpy once to debug runtime IL-emited code as if it was C#. It managed to step into a generated emitted method, decompile it on the fly and set breakpoints on the decompiled C# code for subsequent hits. That was a mind-blowing at the time, nothing else was close and I'm not sure any other tool or IDE supports this even now. Though didn't have a need for that since.
This is great news! Every time I used dnSpy I was blown away by how well made it was.
I still don't know why the original dnSpy repo was archived suddenly. Every once in a while I would go check to see if there's been any movement. I didn't realize this project existed so thanks for sharing.
Ahh I remember this. I used this to successfully bypass the registration of a small web scraper back in the day.
Congrats on stealing someone’s software so you could steal someone else’s data!
Mandatory registration doesn’t necessarily means costs.
I once had a 3D model viewer that needed a free online activation but the machine didn’t had internet access, so I flipped the assembly instruction from if registered start to if not registered start.
I laughed out loud lol. We have LLMs for this now.