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Decompiling .NET Executables

by Andrew Herd : January 1, 2022January 7, 2023 Leave a comment

Visual Studio Code is a free IDE that is great for debugging, compiling, and building .NET Framework applications. https://code.visualstudio.com/ Let’s use a simple C# program to demonstrate a very basic workflow for decompiling .NET executables. First, let’s use Notepad++ to create a text file on the Windows virtual machine Desktop with the following code: We […]

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Decompiling Java Classes

by Andrew Herd : January 1, 2022January 2, 2023 2 Comments

While there are many tools that we could use to decompile Java bytecode (with various degrees of success), let’s checkout the JD-GUI decompiler. Java-based web applications primarily consist of compiled Java class files that are compressed into a single file, a Java ARchive, or JAR, file. Using JD-GUI, we can extract the class files and […]