ILSpy 8.0 Preview 1

[christophwille]

ILSpy 8 is based on .NET 6.0 compared to .NET Framework 4.7.2 for the previous generations of ILSpy. All artifacts except the self-contained distribution are built framework-dependent, which means .NET 6.0 must be installed prior to starting ILSpy. This is true for:

• the installer
• the framework-dependent zip
• the VSIXs

Functionality is supposed to be unchanged and fully functional in this release compared to 7.2. If something works in 7.2 but not 8.0-alpha1, please file a bug.

Breaking Changes

• ILSpy 8.0 will target net60-windows (see Move ILSpy to .NET 6.0 #2642) and all plugins will have to be migrated to the new platform.
  • Note: The ICSharpCode.Decompiler engine and NuGet package will continue to target netstandard2.0
• Platform-independent APIs will be moved to ICSharpCode.ILSpyX, currently that includes (but is not limited to):
  • LoadedAssembly and AssemblyList APIs
  • PdbProvider APIs
• LoadedAssembly.WaitUntilLoaded() was removed, because it leads to bugs; use await LoadedAssembly.GetLoadResultAsync() instead
• The MSIX project has been removed and the installer introduced in 7.x will take its place in the Microsoft Store going forward (at RC/RTM).

Contributions

• ilspycmd received support for the "nested directories" option on project export. (see ilspycmd nested directories decompiler setting #2636 by @GreyXor)
• ilspycmd support for generating a solution from multiple projects (based on code provided by @marwie in Cli support for generating solution for multiple projects #2364)
• Namespace nesting in ILSpy tree view (based on code provided by @ds5678 in [Feature]: Namespace Nesting #2667)
• Fix the ordering of COM interface methods, properties, and events to appear in their originally defined order (see Fix the ordering of COM interface methods, properties, and events to appear in their originally defined order #2639 by @zhuman)

Enhancements

• Performance optimization of analyzers (see Analyzer optimization #2643)

Bug fixes

• Wrong decompilation #2634: target expressions of delegate references were not decompiled correctly
• What is the option to make by default all objects expandable? #2632: Make sure that changing the setting "ExpandMemberDefinitions" has an effect when refreshing a decompiled view.
• Indentation messed up when decompiling test file #2629: Indentation of method-call chains.
• Edge case: ILSpy report invaild visibility if overrided properties have different visibility than base  #2653: ILSpy reports wrong visibility for overridden protected internal properties if located in another assembly.
• BAML decompiler missing required class prefix on static fields in binding? #2610: Explicitly qualify members in TemplateBindings.
• TranslateArrayInitializer crashes with out of order array init #2655: TranslateArrayInitializer crashes with out of order array init

And many other fixes, for a full list click here.

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This discussion was created from the release ILSpy 8.0 Preview 1.