Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector is perhaps the biggest lifesaver when working with .NET. If you are having unexpected problems running you application you can quickly delve into the assembly to examine its Types, References and Attributes and understand what is going on.

Reflector is something that may prove useful within the VS.NET IDE itself. It is currently possible to view the internals of an assembly using the Object Browser, but using PocketProd, it is possible to quickly and easily add Reflector support to you Development Environment.

This article discusses how to plug Reflector into the VS.NET using PocketProd, and also acts as a general purpose reference for adding functionality to the IDE.

The following pages comprise this article:

Reflector

looks at the essentials for creating the interaction layer between VS.NET, PocketProd and Reflector

Output Window

provides some sample code to show how easy it is to work with the Output Window and provide feedback to the user

IDE

goes on to show how to add the Reflector support to the VS.NET IDE

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The following shows how Reflector support can be added the VS.NET IDE so that you can right click on Reference and launch it in Reflector; this is the outcome from this article:

You can download the code form this article in the following fully commented solution file:

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