RedGate Reflector Alternative that produces Oxygene (Pascal) code?

lgriffin · January 7, 2013, 5:07pm

Hi everyone,
I’ve been using Reflector to disassemble some assemblies into Oxygene/Pascal and it works great. However, after upgrading to a newer version of Reflector, Oxygene (and Delphi) have been marked as “deprecated” and looks like they will not be updating it in the future. I’ve looked at ILSpy, but it only odes C# and VB (afaict).

Is there a “Reflector-like” tool out there that produces Oxygene/Pascal code that is currently supported? Or, is there any possibility of RemObjects contributing to the ILSpy open-source tool to produce Oxygene code? Or am I a dummy and shouldn’t need/want a Reflector-like tool?

Thanks,
Lee

viktoriad · January 8, 2013, 9:28am

Hello,

do I understand correctly that you are using reflector to translate existing C# code into Oxygene? If so you can use Oxidizer menu (it translates C#, Delphi and Java if you have Cooper license) into Oxygene. You can just copy C# code and paste it into your project via Oxidizer => Paste C# as Oxygene.

Best regards.

mtiede · January 8, 2013, 2:38pm

Reflector works with assemblies, so the language could have been C#, F#, or any other .Net language. So the translation would not be from “existing C# code”. FWIW.

And the OP could do a “Paste C# as Oxgene” from within VS.

lgriffin · January 8, 2013, 3:28pm

@viktoriad - No, I’m reading the assemblies directly as @mtiede suggested. That way I can actually see how the code works and translated in to a language that is actually readable (oxygene). I am having to work with an old version of Oxygene (Prism 2010) so I don’t have (I think) the ability to paste C# code as Oxygene in VS (2008). I have the command line version of Oxidizer but I don’t see any option to perform the paste in VS as you and @mtiede describe. It’s probably something available in a later version.

mtiede · January 8, 2013, 8:57pm

The Paste is a menu item when you are current in a .pas file and have something in the clipboard (C#) and right click in the editor window.

I have a moderately old version of Prism. What one do you have?

Here is what I have:

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lgriffin · January 8, 2013, 10:35pm

I’m having to use Prism 2010 which means I’m in VS 2008. So it looks like I’m at least one version back from yours.

slavad · January 9, 2013, 12:58pm

Hi,

unfortunately we don’t have plans implement disassemble tool for Oxygene or plugin for Reflector.

mtiede · January 9, 2013, 1:04pm

Don’t you already HAVE such code because you already did one for Reflector?

lgriffin · January 9, 2013, 5:29pm

@slavad: Thanks. Maybe when I can start using a more up-to-date version of Oxygene/Visual Studio, I can use Oxidizer to paste code in Oxygene and it won’t be as big a problem. I won’t be able to just look at the code in Reflector to see how it works, but I can paste it into a text editor. It just won’t be as convenient/easy.

@mtiede: I assumed that the original author of Reflector had done it, but I could be wrong.

mtiede · January 9, 2013, 6:45pm

I think they must have had some help from the RemObjects guys, but maybe not.

And you don’t need Oxidizer to do the paste. I don’t have it.

lgriffin · January 9, 2013, 9:58pm

No, I’m sure you don’t need Oxidizer. I mistakenly thought that it was the integration of Oxidizer into the IDE (instead of the command line utility I have) was what gave VS the ability to paste the code from C# to Pascal. My misunderstanding, then. It still doesn’t seem to exist in VS2008, though.

tandesigncomca · January 22, 2013, 3:04am

Along with the last version of Prism I purchased with XE, and the VS 2010 shell, came a sample Delphi project and all source files to make a new “Reflector” that I was told at the time was as good as the original displaying in Object Pascal! I never had the time to compile and try it out, but I know I still have a copy of it. I m happy to send a copy to anyone who asks, or post it anywhere wanted as well.

mtiede · January 7, 2013, 7:26pm

Telerik has JustDecompile. Wish that had Oxygene. Marc?

wuping · December 11, 2021, 3:45am

I am having the same question after 8 years now - is there a disassembly tool that can convert .NET assembly to Oxygene code? Or I need to use Oxydizer?

mh · December 13, 2021, 12:34pm

You’'ll need to use Oxidizer, I’m afaid. That, or just use the C#/VB code generated by Reflector or ILSpy, as is.