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Explore assembly and portable PDB Metadata

Last modified: 11 February 2024

dotPeek can help you explore assembly metadata and dig through all items (tables, blobs, strings, and so on) inside it.

All metadata items are displayed in a categorized tree view in the Metadata node that appears under each assembly in the Assembly Explorer window. Noticeable features of this node include:

  • Automatically finding and displaying usages of metadata table items.

  • Decoding and displaying values of blob items.

  • On double-click, decompiling and displaying code that corresponds to the metadata item.

  • Exploring PE file headers.

  • Exploring contents of Debug and Resource directories.

  • Exploring contents of the associated standalone or embedded Portable PDB.

  • Navigation to embedded sources

  • Navigation to source_link.json.

  • Display of embedded CustomDebugInformation blobs.

Exploring assembly metadata with dotPeek