Viewing Assembly Contents and Dependencies
The .NET SDK, which is freely available from Microsoft, contains a tool called ILDASM (Intermediate Language Disassembler) that allows you to peer inside an assembly to view its contents and dependencies. An assembly can be opened within ILDASM by passing its name on the command line when launching ILDASM or by selecting File, Open from the main menu. Figure 6.1 shows the main window of ILDASM viewing a very simple Windows Forms application.
As shown in Figure 6.1, every assembly contains a manifest, which is a collection ...
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