How get string from MethodDefinition

[ttodua]

Description

Naive question, but as I'm unfamiliar, have to ask: with md.FullName we can get method names as string. Is there any way to get method body as string? i couldnt find which method/property does that.

[Washi1337]

There is nothing built-in to create a full string of a method body. However you can access all its components (instructions, locals, exception handlers etc) that you can manually format to your liking. There is also CilInstructionFormatter if you want some base for modifying the format of instructions.

[ttodua]

thanks for quick response. As I mentioned, I am not well-versed in low-level things like that, can you please give me a tiny example for that?
i.e. Console.Write (methodDefinition.CilMethodBody.Instructions.ToString() or ?

[Washi1337]

A very simple way to print all the instructions would be to go over all of them and just call ToString:

for (var instruction in body.Instructions)
    Console.WriteLine(instruction.ToString());

A similar thing can be done for local variables:

for (var local in body.LocalVariables)
    Console.WriteLine($"[{local.Index}] {local.VariableType}");

Exception handlers are slightly more complicated, as there are multiple types of handlers, but again a similar approach will do.

[ttodua]

thanks!