Get all methods from a unmanaged DLL in C#

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Hi,

With reflection in C#, it's possible to get all methods from a library from managed code (using the Type.GetMethods()[^] method). Now, I'm trying to get all methods from unmanaged code. For example, I'm trying to get all methods from user32.dll (and the methods from other DLL's) in C#.
How can I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 12-Jan-13 21:54pm

Thomas Daniels

Updated 12-Jan-13 21:55pm

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Narasimha Murthy SR · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-15T02:23:00

Solution 2

Hi,
To get the Function name list,

Go to VS command prompt,

Type

1) dumpbin /exports user32.dll > "C:\FunctionList_User32.txt"
2) link /dump /exports user32.dll > "C:\FunctionList_User32.txt".

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720146(v=vs.71).aspx[^]

Posted 15-Oct-13 2:23am

Narasimha Murthy SR

Updated 15-Oct-13 2:24am

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Thomas Daniels 15-Oct-13 12:36pm

Very nice, thank you!

ssaddam 6-Nov-17 6:10am

Thanks, it saved my time

OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-12T22:36:00

You can do it (to a limited extent) but I've never tried as the information you can get is pretty useless to you. Why? Because unmanaged DLLs do not contain parameter lists like managed assemblies do, so a list of DLL functions is just that: the names with no other information.

There are tools to retrieve those names: Dependancy Walker[^] is a very useful one, but in order to use the names you can retrieve, you still need to look at the documentation. So to be honest, you are probably better off starting with the documents in the first place!