.net resource extractor

[isbat1]

I need to extract some embedded resources back to disk from a .net
assembly.

What tool do I need, and where do I get it?

 

[Kent Boogaart]

Try reflector and / or resourcer: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/

HTH,
Kent

 

[Richard Grimes]

I need to extract some embedded resources back to disk from a .net
assembly.

What tool do I need, and where do I get it?

In addition to Kent's reply, ildasm will also extract resources if you
run from the command line:

ildasm /text /out:test.il test.dll

Of course you can write your own code to do this. look up
Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream and related functions

Richard

 

[isbat1]

I tried both of them. Reflector lets you extract all the resources as
a big wad, which is no more helpful than if I hadn't extracted them at
all. Resourcer lets you add things TO a resource file, but it won't
take them out. Neither program is any help.

 

[Kent Boogaart]

My version of reflector lets you both view and extract individual resources.
I have the latest version since it auto updates.

 

[Kent Boogaart]

Unless you're talking about extracting individual resources from an embedded
resource file (as opposed to individual resource files). In that case, see
Richard's suggestion.

 

[Richard Grimes]

Unless you're talking about extracting individual resources from an
embedded resource file (as opposed to individual resource files). In
that case, see Richard's suggestion.

Well, if you have a .resources file for compiled resources you can
decompile with resgen (this tool both compiles and decompiles
resources):

resgen test.resources test.resx

Again, this is done with various classes in the System.Resources
namespace, so it is relatively easy to write your own.

Richard

 

[Largest]

If you still need a tool for extracting .net resource files there is one on tecsploit including source code that will extract all resources as individual files, it worked well for me when I needed to extract some reports from a .net assembly

http://www.tecsploit.com