ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. • Hacker News Board

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by Shanewho » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #30

Shanewho wrote: post #22

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The money grubbing part is that the existing free version will expire and you will no longer be able to use it. So even if you are willing to use the existing product (which doesn't require a "dedicated team of developers"), you are out of luck.

If they allowed this old version to float-around, it might tarnish the brand. Also, what stops people from saying "it's money grubbing to have a crippled freebie like this and demand $35 for full version". $35 is nothing. I wrote decompilers and they're pretty damn hard and require constant upkeep and testing.

There is a difference in "They still offer a crippled freebie for download on there site" and "They disable the version that I have on my computer that works just fine, and force me to pay money for features I may not be interested in". If they don't want to offer a free/old/crippled version anymore, I don't blame them. But if I already have the software installed on my pc today, and tomorrow it doesn't work, that's really lame.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by batterseapower » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 5:40 PM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #27

I checked back at my comment on the announcement ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170957 ) and was amazed to see it was only two weeks ago. Either they work fast or were already working on this.

I know one of the authors, David Srbecky: he was in my class at Cambridge. His final year undergrad project was a decompiler from IL to C#, so he had a big chunk of code for this lying around already - the Reflector changes provided the motivation to finally clean it up and publish it.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by Someone » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 8:12 PM UTC

henrikschroder wrote: post #8

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

We're using it, because we knew it, and it just works.

I agree.

(Macintosh : PC with MS Windows) in 1995 = (.NET+C# : Java) in 2010

The latter is cheaper and has more choice, but the former fits together so much better.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by sourc3 » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 8:28 PM UTC

omellet wrote: post #16

sourc3 wrote: post #12

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I have used .NET for all my start up endeavors. Like others have suggested, it just works for me since I have background in .NET and windows development. Although I have experimented with Ruby and Python both I never felt like the incurring the cost of learning curve while trying to complete a project. In my opinion my customers do not care about the language the application is written in as long as they are accessin…

Have you tried hosting on mono/linux? I'm curious about this, myself.

I have not yet used it because as others pointed out I rely heavily on SQL Server 2005/8 to use Linq To SQL in my solutions. Even if I can host the application on a linux box, I still need a windows box to put the DB server on.

However, I've been looking at postgreSQL for a while and it looks ok. I am curious if anyone has tried this before.

Has anyone done this with MySql/PostgreSQL?