Of particular interest is the Reflector.VisualStudio Add-In. This
add-in, created by Jaime Cansdale, allows for Reflector to be hosted
within Visual Studio. With this add-in, you can have Reflector
integrated within the Visual Studio environment.
To get
started, you will need to have the latest version of Reflector on your
machine. Once you have downloaded Reflector, download the latest
version of the Reflector.VisualStudio Add-In from
http://www.testdriven.NET/reflector. The download contains a number of
files that need to be placed in the same directory as Reflector.exe.
To install the add-in, drop to the command line and run:
Reflector.VisualStudio.exe /install
After the add-in has been installed, you can start using Reflector from Visual Studio. You’ll notice a new menu item, Addins, which has a
menu option titled Reflector. This option, when selected, displays the
Reflector window, which can be docked in the IDE. Additionally, the
add-in provides context menu support.
When you right-click
in an open code file in Visual Studio, you’ll see a Reflector menu
item that expands into a submenu with options to disassemble the code
into C# or Visual Basic, display the call graph or callee graph, and
other related choices. The context menu also includes a Synchronize
with Reflector menu item that, when clicked, syncs the object browser
tree in the Reflector window with the current code file.