ILSpy 7.0

[christophwille]

New Language Features

• C# 9.0: record classes
• C# 9.0: with expressions
• C# 9.0: primary constructors
• Support for .NET 5 custom calling conventions
• Improved support for Unsafe-intrinsics

UI Improvements

• Dark mode (@tom-englert in Dark theme #665 fixes #2347)
• .NET bundles and Nuget packages are now directly embedded in the tree view
• Search enabled in NuGet packages
• Added setting highlight the current line in the code view (see Added setting to highlight the current line #2224, by @DickvdBrink)
• Simple UI language switching support

General

• Support for .NET bundles (see Open NuGet packages and .NET bundles in tree view #2191)
• Detect use of csc /deterministic switch
• Improve assembly resolver API to allow async usage
• Enable server garbage collection for ILSpy and ilspycmd #2286: Enable server-mode GC in ILSpy
• Building ILSpy for .NET 5 is now possible (see multitargeting.props.template)
• Improved project/solution decompilation (see Restore #2157 Improving csproj Export (Save Code) #2186, by @wwh1004)
• Updated ReadyToRun (see r2r changes #2238 & Fix some bugs in debug info decoration for ReadyToRun #2279, by @cshung)
• Added inline display of CustomDebugInformation table entries in metadata
• Add metadata tree nodes for blob, guid, string and user string heap
• Performance improvements in DataGrid filter (by @tom-englert)
• Adjust fitness calculation for destructors (by @MikeFH in Adjust fitness calculation for desctructors #2344)
• Refactored insertion of search results (by @MikeFH in Refactor searchresult insert #2335)
• Align dependencies with Roslyn 3.8.0, see Adapt the NuGet Dependencies for ICS.D #2173 (affects ICSharpCode.Decompiler NuGet package users)
• Removed the dependency on Humanizer (see decompile fails when referencing ef core 5 #2232 and Remove Humanizer dependency #2235)

Bug fixes

• Fix Support VB.NET closure #2192: Add support for VB.NET delegate construction
• Fix goto xxx but xxx doesn't exist #2195: foreach loop conversion accidentally removes end container labels
• Fix .NET 5 RC2: "Analyze/Used By" throws BadImageFormatException #2197: .NET 5 RC2: "Analyze/Used By" throws BadImageFormatException
• Fix Use of delegate* throws a NRE #2196: Add support for extern local functions.
• Fix CSharpFormattingOptions.AutoPropertyFormatting has no effect #1079: CSharpFormattingOptions.AutoPropertyFormatting has no effect
• Fix Can't decompile to switch-expression when value is implicitly cast #2222: switch-expression does not support implicit conversions.
• NullReferenceException at ICSharpCode.Decompiler.TypeSystem.TypeProvider.GetTypeFromReference #2241: Fix possible NRE in TypeProvider.GetTypeFromReference
• Fix ResourcesFileTreeNode no longer creates child nodes for BAML files #2233: ResourcesFileTreeNode no longer creates child nodes for BAML files
• Fix casting interface + null-conditional == uncompilable #2230: do not emit directly consecutive null propagation operators
• Fix Single element arrays should not span multiple lines #603: Single element arrays should not span multiple lines
• Fixed crash when loading DLLs with invalid sections in their .deps.json (see ILSpy should not crash if fullName contains no "/" - no version info #2227, by @bernd5)
• Wrong dynamic decompilation #2278: Implement support for CSharpBinderFlags.InvokeSimpleName
• Having same var at class level and inside function leads to error #2280: Add additional checks to GenerateVariableName
• Exception when assembly doesn't contain TargetFrameworkId data #2275: Fix exception when assembly does not contain proper MetadataVersion.
• String switch does not get decompiled #2260: Fix switch(string) transform: handle empty cases where the C# compiler optimizes out the if
• Wrong nullable value type expression decompilation #2288: Fix decompilation of nullable lifting in expression trees (by @wwh1004)
• PDBGen: Ignore duplicated ILFunctions (see 5a8b488)
• ILSpy incorrectly resolves a runtime dependency when dll is present in both WindowsDesktop.App and NETCore.App #2314: ILSpy incorrectly resolves a runtime dependency when dll is present in both WindowsDesktop.App and NETCore.App
• assert at ILSpy.BamlDecompiler.Baml.KnownThings.ResolveAssembly #1648 and Could not resolve known assembly 'PresentationCore, Version=4.0.0.0 #2133: Use simple assembly names for KnownThings to allow the resolver to use the relative framework version
• anonymous method + dynamic argument + multiply - causes an error #2349: Use proper ExpressionType with DynamicCompoundAssign.
• XmlDocumentationProvider Unable to load some XML files to have special characters #1512: XmlDocumentationProvider Unable to load some XML files to have special characters
• Name of var shouldn't be empty string #2342: Do not generate empty names for foreach loop variables.
• Unhandled FileNotFoundException when doing a string search when an assembly file is deleted #2340: Do not traverse assemblies with load errors in AssemblyList.GetAllAssemblies()
• Can't navigate if switch language in Analyze panel. #2356: Can't navigate if switch language in Analyze panel
• Improved decompilation of rethrow/throw and finally blocks in async methods. (see Some edge case when await is used in catch #1749, can't decompile rethrow in async method #2339 and Await using declarations in top scope is not supported #2353)

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This discussion was created from the release ILSpy 7.0.