.net framework 3.5 source code

Question

I have been trying to get the source code for the .net Framework 3.5 SP1 for several hours, and the place I remember is to get 3.5 sources in the past, http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx , is dead.

Just "3.5" without "SP1" would be fine too. It does not need to be precise, but let me delve into and see how the material is implemented. But the parts from 4.5 sources on sourceource that I checked have changed too much to be useful to me.

I tried NetMassDownloader with the following arguments, but both of them say "not available" for all DLLs, including the most basic ones, such as "System.dll" and "mscorlib.dll"

NetMassDownloader -d "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5"
Netmassdownloader -d c:\windows\Microsoft.NET -d "c:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies"

So, in 2015, is it still somehow possible to get (as much as possible) the source version v3.5 (SP1) code as a zip / tarball ?

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NB I used to try to configure Visual Studio 2012 so that I could go into .net sources in a variety of suggested ways on the network, including pointing to

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols
http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

to no avail. The simplest now, it seems, is to get a simple archive with the source files - if I could pick them up.

Answer 1

Quote: Comment by Hans Passant:

He just left, he will not return. A decent decompiler like Reflector still works, of course.

, free ( ) dotPeek VS- System.data.dll, . , , , .