Quick Start
Open an assembly
Section titled “Open an assembly”Point dotsider at any .NET DLL or EXE:
dotsider HelloWorld.dllYou land on the General tab showing assembly identity, target framework, architecture, and the dependency table.
Navigate tabs
Section titled “Navigate tabs”Press 1 through 8 to switch between tabs:
| Key | Tab |
|---|---|
1 | General |
2 | PE / Metadata |
3 | IL Inspector |
4 | Strings |
5 | Hex Dump |
6 | Dep Graph |
7 | Size Map |
8 | Dynamic |
Drill in
Section titled “Drill in”Press Enter on any highlighted item to drill deeper — an assembly reference, a method in the IL tree, or a dependency node in the graph. Press Esc to go back.
Search
Section titled “Search”Press / to search. Matches are highlighted inline. Use n and N to jump between matches.
Copy text
Section titled “Copy text”Select text in any info panel or editor with click-drag or Shift + arrow keys, then press y to yank (copy) it to the clipboard. A brief flash confirms the copied range. On table rows, just focus a row and press y — the row content is copied as tab-separated values.
For quick word selection, press iw to select the word under the cursor, or iW to select a whitespace-delimited WORD (useful for fully-qualified type names). Combine with yank: yiw selects and copies in one motion.
Use Tab to cycle focus between panels on tabs that have both info editors and tables.
Compare two assemblies
Section titled “Compare two assemblies”dotsider diff v1.dll v2.dllOpens a side-by-side view. Press f to cycle filters: All, Added, Removed, Changed.
Browse a NuGet package
Section titled “Browse a NuGet package”dotsider package.nupkgLists the package contents. Press Enter on any DLL to open it in the full analyzer.
Press q.