ILAsm (IL Assembler) generates a portable executable (PE) file from a text representation of Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code. It is not to be confused with NGEN (Native Image Generator), which compiles Common Intermediate Language code into native code as a .NET assembly is deployed.^[1]

References

External links

.NET

Implementations

Architecture

Components

Tools

Obfuscators	Dotfuscator SmartAssembly
Decompilers	.NET Reflector dotPeek
Misc	CLR Profiler ILAsm .NET Compiler Platform Native Image Generator (NGen) XAMLPad

Organizations

Microsoft development tools

Development
environments

Visual Studio	Code Express Team System Profiler Tools for Applications Tools for Office
Others	Blend Expression Web FxCop GW-BASIC MACRO-80 Macro Assembler MSBuild Pascal QuickBASIC QBasic QuickC Robotics Developer Studio Roslyn SharePoint Designer FrontPage Small Basic WebMatrix Windows App SDK Windows App Studio Windows SDK CLR Profiler ILAsm Native Image Generator WinDiff XAMLPad

Languages

APIs and
frameworks

Native	Windows API Silverlight XNA DirectX Managed DirectX UWP Xbox Development Kit Windows Installer WinUI
.NET	ASP.NET Core AJAX Dynamic Data MVC Razor Web Forms ADO.NET Entity Framework MAUI CardSpace Communication Foundation Identity Foundation LINQ Presentation Foundation Workflow Foundation
Device drivers	WDK WDF KMDF UMDF Windows HLK WDM

Database

SQL Server	Express Compact Management Studio Business Intelligence Development Studio MSDE
SQL services	Analysis Reporting Integration Notification
Other	Visual FoxPro Microsoft Access Access Database Engine Extensible Storage Engine

Source control

Testing and
debugging

Delivery