I was reading through the second chapter of Advanced .NET Debugging and didn't manage to find the entry point of an executable. I wrote this web application so that a)
I could understand more about the PE format and b)
I wouldn't have to repeat the same basic math each time I wanted to inspect a .NET
DLL
.
Portable Executable CLR Viewer
is a hex viewer for.NET
binaries.
At the moment it's fairly limited and only highlights:
- The bitness (
x86
vsx64
) - The entry point
Relative Virtual Address
(search forRVA
in the PE format) - The CLI flags
- The targeted
CLR
version
If you feel adventurous you can try the hosted version.
Fair warning: this is probably the ugliest web app in the world 😹.
This is very much a work in progress. If I manage to motivate myself I'll work on the cards listed in this public Trello board.
If you would like to inspect a proprietary binary I advise you to run locally (the app is self-contained). You'll need:
Then run the following commands one by one:
yarn install
yarn start
Each push to main
triggers a GitHub Actions
workflow and a deployment to Azure Static Web Apps
.