.NET Command line utilities, dumpbin.exe and coreflag.exe

Question

What exactly is the use of DUMPBIN.exe as well as COREFLAG.exe?? and when to use it??

Answer 1

dumpbin.exe is just a utility that dumps various aspects of an executable image or .obj file (imports, exports, information in the header, etc).

A bit of trivia - dumpbin.exe is a simple program that just invokes link.exe with the /dump option. Or maybe it's the other way around.

Answer 2

Did you mean corflag (no e)? If so it's a utility used to change certain header properties of .Net executables. Most commonly it's used to change the processor architecture of a .Net DLL. Full documentation at

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164699(VS.80).aspx

Less familiar with Dumpbin but the full documentation is here

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c1h23y6c(VS.71).aspx