Detailed Assembly Structure
This section will discuss one tool and one set of APIs that help you manipulate and view the assembly structure. This tool is shipped with the SDK in \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK\bin. The tool is called ILDasm, and it is extremely useful. ILDasm has online help available under the Help menu. Documentation about the advanced features of ILDasm can be found in \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK\Tool Developers Guide\docs.
To drill down into the structure of the assembly, you need to invoke ILDasm with the advanced option. Still looking at the simple HelloWorld.exe assembly, from a command prompt window, start up ILDasm as follows:
ILDasm /adv helloworld.exe
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