Assembly Visualizer

If you frequently work with ILSpy to deconstruct .NET assemblies in order to find and resolve bugs quickly, you must take a look at AssemblyVisualizer. It's a plugin that currently supports only this application but plans on extending support to others too. It provides browsers for exploring assemblies and their dependencies.

The tool features assembly, ancestry, interaction and dependency browsers. All of this is wrapped in a tiny DLL that can be easily installed in ILSpy by copying the DLL to the ILSpy directory (same as the ILSpy launcher). Restarting ILSpy is necessary if it was running before this step.

Once it's successfully integrated into the .NET decompiler, it makes it possible to browse an assembly and its dependencies from the right-click menu, as well as to visualize the descendants of types.

The assembly browser shows all related assembly-related items in list view along with the number of members, direct and total descendants.

Buttons become visible when hovering an item, allowing you to jump to the assembly's entry in ILSpy, viewing its descendants in a graph, and browsing interactions.

As far as graph options are concerned, it's possible to fill the graph, zoom in or out to view the original size, search for items, decolorize, and select the types of view.

The ancestry browser displays items in a list, grouping assemblies with their ancestors. Also, you can filter member types (fields, events, properties, methods), visibility (private, internal protected, public) and members.

Taking into account the multiple graph modes of AssemblyVisualizer, it's an essential plugin for .NET assemblies, ideal for users who want to get a better idea of what's going on with the help of intuitive graphs.