Mark Arend : Using Reflector to See SharePoint's "Source" Code

 

Do you sometimes use a "reflector" program to examine SharePoint source code? This can be necessary to:

• Understand out how SharePoint is doing something, to find what elements can be customized.
• Understand what members to override in classes you create that inherit from SharePoint classes.

The de facto standard program for doing this is Lutz Roeder's Reflector. The MSDN article on ten must-have tools has a great description of how helpful it can be and how to use it.

One thing the article doesn't tell you is where to find SharePoint's assemblies; fortunately it's not that hard. Click "Open" in Reflector, then with a little bit of browsing, most people easily find the dlls in the ISAPI directory of the "12-hive" (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI).

Mark Arend : Using Reflector to See SharePoint's "Source" Code