Find out dependencies of all DLLs?

Question

I have a collection of DLLs(say 20). How do I find out all the DLLs on which one specific DLL (say DLL A) is depending upon?

Answer 1

All answer credit goes to previous authors for the usage of Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies. This is just a write-and-forget C# console app that works solely for .NET assemblies. return 0 on assemblies you were able to check, and when successful, outputs them to STDOUT. Everything else will return 1 and print some kind of error output. You can grab the gist here.

using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;
namespace DotNetInspectorGadget
{
    class DotNetInspectorGadget 
    {
        static int Main(string[] args) 
        {
          if(args.GetLength(0) < 1)
          {
            Console.WriteLine("Add a single parameter that is your" +
            " path to the file you want inspected.");
            return 1;
          }
          try {
                var assemblies = Assembly.LoadFile(@args[0]).GetReferencedAssemblies();

                if (assemblies.GetLength(0) > 0)
                {
                  foreach (var assembly in assemblies)
                  {
                    Console.WriteLine(assembly);
                  }
                  return 0;
                }
          }
          catch(Exception e) {
            Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred: {0}", e.Message);
            return 1;
          } finally{}

            return 1;
        }
    }
}

Usage:

call %cd%\dotnet_inspector_gadget.exe C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64\Microsoft.ConfigCI.Commands\v4.0_10.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.ConfigCI.Commands.dll

Output:

mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
System.Xml, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
System.Management.Automation, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
System.Security, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
System.Management, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a