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Open and close assemblies

Last modified: 25 November 2024

With JetBrains Rider, you can open any .NET assemblies, decompile and explore their contents.

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You can also open assemblies from Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and find assemblies in specific folder.

Supported assembly file types include:

  • Libraries (.dll)

  • Executable files (.exe)

  • Windows 8 metadata files (.winmd)

  • Archives (.zip)

  • NuGet packages (.nupkg)

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions packages (.vsix)

Open an assembly

  • Click Open ThemedIcon.AssemblyAdd.Screen.(Gray).png on the Assembly Explorer toolbar and then select an assembly file.

  • In the Solution Explorer, find the desired referenced assembly under the Assemblies node, double-click it or right-click and choose View in Assembly Explorer in the context menu.

  • In the Modules view, right-click a module and choose View in Assembly Explorer.

The opened assembly showing its name and version is added to the Assembly Explorer window. You can explore it by expanding the assembly node and its child nodes. Double-click code symbols to decompile and view the corresponding code.

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Alternatively to opening an assembly file, you can explore a folder that contains assembly files.

As JetBrains Rider does not make any modifications to the opened assemblies, you can close them by removing from the Assembly Explorer window.

Close assemblies

  • Right-click an assembly and choose Remove Item from List in the context menu.

  • Select an assembly in the Assembly Explorer and press Delete.

  • To close all assemblies, click Clear Assembly Explorer ThemedIcon.WorkspaceClear.Screen.(Gray).png

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If at any point you would like to clear the decompilation cache, remove the data in %APPDATA%\JetBrains\Rider2024.3\resharper-host\DecompilerCache.

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