August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 21m
English
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Appendix D. Common Utilities
Microsoft .NET Framework provides many tools to help developers make the best use of the Framework. In the following sections, we document the commonly used subset of .NET tools that we’ve used throughout this book:
Assembly Generation Utility (al.exe)
Assembly Registration Utility (gacutil.exe)
MSIL Assembler (ilasm.exe)
MSIL Disassembler (ildasm.exe)
C++ Compiler (cl.exe)
C# Compiler (csc.exe)
VB Compiler (vbc.exe)
PE File viewer (dumpbin.exe)
Type Library Exporter (tlbexp.exe)
Type Library Importer (tlbimp.exe)
XML Schema Definition Tool (xsd.exe)
Shared Name Utility (sn.exe)
Web Service Utility (wsdl.exe)
Assembly Generation Utility (al.exe)
al.exe is generally used to generate assemblies with manifests. Table D-1 shows some of the common uses of the Assembly Generation Utility.
Table D-1. Assembly Generation Utility common uses
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Option |
Description |
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Specifies a value for the Flags field in the assembly.
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Use to get help for this command. |
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Use to create shared components.
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