How do I get an IL bytearray from a DynamicMethod?

Question

As a bit of a novelty, I\'m trying to see how different the IL from light weight code generated at runtime looks vs code generated by the VS compiler, as I noticed that VS c

Answer 1

The current solutions here aren't addressing the current situation in .NET 4 very well. You can use either DynamicILInfo or ILGenerator to create the dynamic method, but the solutions listed here do not work with DynamicILInfo dynamic methods at all.

Whether you use the DynamicILInfo method of generating IL or the ILGenerator method, the IL bytecode ends up in DynamicMethod.m_resolver.m_code. You don't have to check both methods and it's a less complex solution.

This is the version you should be using:

public static byte[] GetILBytes(DynamicMethod dynamicMethod)
{
    var resolver = typeof(DynamicMethod).GetField("m_resolver", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(dynamicMethod);
    if (resolver == null) throw new ArgumentException("The dynamic method's IL has not been finalized.");
    return (byte[])resolver.GetType().GetField("m_code", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(resolver);
}

See this answer for more helper methods and a solution for the DynamicMethod token resolution issue.