CIL Tools v2.5 is released

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The new version contains the following changes:

CilTools.BytecodeAnalysis

• Add IReflectionInfo interface to enable custom properties on reflection objects (implemented by classes in CilTools.Metadata)
• Add CilInstruction.ToSyntax()
• Add Disassembler.GetAssemblyManifestSyntaxNodes
• Add IParamsProvider interface (enables getting method parameters without resolving external assembly references, implemented by classes in CilTools.Metadata)
• Support parameters and return type custom attributes
• Support field custom attributes
• Support .override and .vtentry directives
• Support events in type disassembler
• Support vararg sentinel (...) in method signatures
• Support specialname and rtspecialname attributes on methods
• Skip assembly name for types in the same assembly
• Escape special characters in identifiers
• Escape slash in string literals
• Fix base type syntax in GetTypeDefSyntax
• Fix TypeSpec.IsValueType for byref target types and generics
• Fix extra whitepaces after directive names
• Fix constructors to have void return type in disassembled CIL
• Fix ldtoken syntax for types
• Fix CilParserException when exception handler block closes after the last instruction in the method body
• Fix literal syntax for enum and boolean types
• Fix serializable attribute handling
• Fix type name representation in syntax API (now namespace is handled as a separate identifier token)
• Fix detection of <Module> type (global fields and functions)

CilTools.Runtime

• Implement GetReferencedAssemblies and ManifestModule on DynamicMethodsAssembly

CilTools.CommandLine

• Add view-source command
• Add fileinfo command
• Add support for viewing assembly manifest to view command
• Add assembly disassembling support to disasm command
• Roll-forward to next major versions of .NET Runtime

The view-source command enables you to display source code of the specified method based on info in debugging symbols (if they are present) or decompiled source (currently only a limited decompilation support for methods without body, i.e, abstract or pinvoke). 

The fileinfo command displays information about assembly files, such as PE header data or assembly-level custom attributes.

The Roll-forward feature means that you can run the app on .NET 5.0+, even though it targets .NET Core 3.1.

CIL View

• Add Source Link support for Portable PDB symbols
• Add source code syntax highlighting
• Add instruction info
• Add IL syntax highlighting in SourceViewWindow
• Add support for viewing assembly manifest and Export assembly to file menu command
• Add Recent files menu
• Add HTML help
• Change default filter in Open File dialog to include all supported file types (instead of only .dll and .exe)
• Disable formatted view for .il files larger then 1 MB
• Support viewing separate types from .il files
• Load .il files in background

New Source view UI look with syntax highlighting: