[Feature request] Opening .NET host executables

[PercyDan54]

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Recently I've tried JetBrains dotPeek and found a feature I'd like to see in dnSpy (it's not present in ILSpy either).

When you open a .NET host executable dnSpy just shows basic PE info, as if it's a non-.NET executable. But dotPeek shows the related assembly like this

[ElektroKill]

Duplicate of #16

Support for these files is a planned feature.

[PercyDan54]

Duplicate of #16

Support for these files is a planned feature.

I don't think this is a duplicate. The said executable is not a single file

[ElektroKill]

Oh my bad, the file you are looking at is just an apphost and not a bundle. Lyrics.exe is just bootstrap exe which runs the code in Lyrics.dll. The Lyrics.exe file does nothing else but that. If you want to analyze this application just open Lyrics.dll like you would any other file. During debugging, dnSpy will locate the correct apphost to use to start the executable.

dotPeek just automatically loads the related .dll when you load the .exe. Something dnSpy does not do as a means to make the distinction of what information is actually present in a file.