How to programmatically find ILASM.EXE in .NET 4.0?

Question

My program should call ILASM , but it continues to move through me. Is there a registry setting or other value that my program can read, so I don’t need to hardcode the path?

Answer 1

In the Microsoft.Build.Utilities SDK namespace, you can use the ToolLocationHelper class :

 using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; // Use ToolLocationHelper to find ILASM.EXE in the Framework directory ToolLocationHelper.GetPathToDotNetFrameworkFile("ILAsm.exe", TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion.VersionLatest); 

Adapted from the MSDN sample .

Answer 2

It seems that there are several libraries that look like ILAsm that people have recommended:

• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/6a34a558-ab57-424f-a799-f0fc458105c1/default.aspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=7e979ed3-416b-43b6-993b-308a160831b6&displaylang=en

You can use these (or CodeDom → C #) instead of calling the program.

Answer 3

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft.NETFramework, find InstallRoot. Add the .net version number to the path in InstallRoot and get it.