Navigate compiled code

As a tool for working with compiled code, dotPeek helps you search and navigate through compiled code.

Code presentation in the code viewer depends on the settings, on the availability of PDB information, and on the applied navigation command.

There are two types of navigation commands that target library symbols:

• Commands that explicitly specify where and how to represent library symbols:

  • Locate in Assembly Explorer

  • Navigate To: Decompiled Sources

  • Navigate To: Metadata View

  • Navigate To: Sources from Symbol Files

• Commands that lead to other compiled symbols compiled symbols without specifying how to represent the target code. For example,

  • Go to Declaration

  • Go to Type of Symbol

  • Go to Base Symbols

For the second type of commands, you can specify how dotPeek will represent library symbols.

You can configure the default navigation on the Decompiler page of dotPeek options Ctrl+Alt+S.