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ILSpy v5.0-preview1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-03-10 // about 5 years ago

  • 🆕 New Language Features

    • C# 8.0: Nullable Reference Types
    • C# 7.3: unmanaged generic constraint

    👌 Improvements & Bugfixes

    • PDB generator now can emit "method stepping information" for async #1422
    • 🏁 Generate VS Windows Forms Designer-compliant code if a method is identified as Windows Forms InitializeComponent
    • ➕ Add support for ReadOnlySpan initialization pattern
    • 👌 Improved decompilation of LINQ queries
    • 👌 Improved performance in ILInlining step
    • 🆕 New BAML Decompiler

    💻 UI Improvements

    • 💻 Avoid blocking the UI when waiting on assembly load while restoring the saved position in the treeview
    • 👌 Support obfuscated names in treeview and search #1359
    • 🖨 Escape non-printable characters in IL view
    • Reactivate SearchMsdnContextMenuEntry

    dotnet ilspycmd Tool

    • ➕ Add -d|-debuginfo option See Demo app
    • ➕ Add -r|-referencepath option

    Architectural Changes

    • 👍 We dropped support for all TFMs except netstandard2.0 #1416
    • ✅ Reactivate many tests from old decompiler