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.NET assemblies inspected without running them: PE/CLI identification, metadata and CIL, member diffs across builds, and what changes with NativeAOT. Guides identify managed versus native binaries, inspect target frameworks, assembly versions and references, compare decompilers, and use REA for static assembly analysis.

• .NET Assembly Static Analysis with REA: Metadata, CIL, Members

  Inspect .NET assemblies with REA without running them: identify the PE/CLI artifact, read metadata and CIL, compare members across builds, and handle NativeAOT.

  11 min read · REA 6.7.0

• Check a .NET DLL's Target Framework, Version and References

  Find out which .NET version a DLL targets, its assembly and file version, and the assemblies it references, without Visual Studio: in the browser or with REA.

  8 min read

• Is This EXE a .NET App? Framework, Single-File, R2R or NativeAOT

  Tell a .NET Framework EXE, an apphost, a single-file bundle, a ReadyToRun DLL and a NativeAOT binary apart from their bytes, with output from real builds.

  9 min read