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what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

25-Dec-23 8:11

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Southmountain24-Dec-23 7:08

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24-Dec-23 7:08

I try to use Hex editor to find it out...

diligent hands rule....

Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

PIEBALDconsult24-Dec-23 7:37

PIEBALDconsult

24-Dec-23 7:37

Try loading it in .net ?

Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

Gary R. Wheeler24-Dec-23 8:10

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24-Dec-23 8:10

How to: Determine if a file is an assembly - .NET | Microsoft Learn[^]

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Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

Dave Kreskowiak24-Dec-23 8:15

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24-Dec-23 8:15

Try to open it in ILDASM. If it opens, it's .NET.

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Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

Daniel Pfeffer24-Dec-23 10:10

Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

24-Dec-23 10:10

Perhaps you should ask this in the .NET forum.

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trønderen24-Dec-23 11:22

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24-Dec-23 11:22

Repeating the question in the .net forum, now that it it is already answered here, would lead to another series of "You are misbehaving!!!" cries from those who know by heart all the details of proper behavior.
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Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

PIEBALDconsult24-Dec-23 12:10

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24-Dec-23 12:10

But not at you, so you can join in on the fun.

Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

RickZeeland24-Dec-23 22:42

RickZeeland

24-Dec-23 22:42

See CodeProject article "Determine Platform Affinity 32 bit, 64 bit or Any CPU for a Managed .NET PE".
In the past I used another utility, but I can't remember the name ...

Re: what is the quick way to tell if this assembly is .NET assembly or unmanaged one?

Southmountain25-Dec-23 9:48

Southmountain

25-Dec-23 9:48

I try to see if there is better way to find out this info since many years passed.
in my mind, I want to find certain byte/section to identify if this is a managed assembly.

diligent hands rule....

what is the difference ?

Salvatore Terress24-Dec-23 7:34

Salvatore Terress

24-Dec-23 7:34

OK
I asked Mrs Google about difference between SSD and Flash drive , and this
is what she said :

What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? | PC Gamer[^]

In much lesser wording:

They are read / write storage devices (RAM ?) , some connected via USB...
where the actual storage memory is implemented with different technology.

What could be added to my description ?

Gary R. Wheeler24-Dec-23 8:13

Gary R. Wheeler

24-Dec-23 8:13

The term "Flash drives" generally refer to removable drives, while SSD's refer to drives 'built-in' to the computer. Both types use solid-state devices for storage, rather than spinning magnetic media.

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Richard Andrew x6424-Dec-23 8:29

Richard Andrew x64

24-Dec-23 8:29

SSDs typically use NAND memory that it much faster than the memory type used in USB drives.

The difficult we do right away...
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PIEBALDconsult24-Dec-23 8:34

PIEBALDconsult

24-Dec-23 8:34

If I stick a laptop SSD in a USB housing...

Anyway, I don't think the typical consumer cares. I know I don't. And things change so rapidly.

Salvatore Terress24-Dec-23 9:48

Salvatore Terress

24-Dec-23 9:48

Would USB "Flash drive" be "limited" in speed by USB bus?

PS I just asked as a technical curiosity question - I do not want to get into personal opinions.

Daniel Pfeffer24-Dec-23 10:23

24-Dec-23 10:23

The latest USB standard (3.2 Gen 2) goes as high as 10 Gb/second. The actual data rate is lower because of the protocol overhead. I doubt that the flash memory used in flash drives can keep up with that. It should be able to keep up with USB 2.0 (480 Mb/second).

OTOH, even SATA SSD drives can reach speeds of 4.5 Gb/second of data. This is close to the SATA III speed (6 Gb/second), if you allow for the overhead. A PCIe or NVMe drive is even faster.

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DerekT-P24-Dec-23 10:47

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24-Dec-23 10:47

You've thrown me by saying "(RAM?)". While at an electronic level, RAM and Flash might use the same or similar technology (I don't enough to say yes or no) SSD is definitely not "RAM" which is very specifically RANDOM ACCESS memory. As such RAM is directly accessible at a much more granular level than an SSD is (normally) accessed at. RAM doesn't have a "file system" mapped onto it, and yet (with some exceptions such as when formatting or writing boot blocks - perhaps) an SSD is normally accessed via a filing system, reading/writing "blocks" of data within a specific file. Clearly within the SSD itself, each byte is directly accessible but from an external viewpoint, it's not.

I'm probably not quite right on some of the implementation details but in general, the term "SSD" is used to refer to a solid-state device giving access to data via a file system of some sort, whilst RAM is directly addressible. I think that's an important enough distinction to warrant removing any reference to RAM from the SSD / Flash discussion...

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jschell25-Dec-23 8:01

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25-Dec-23 8:01

Salvatore Terress wrote:
SSD and Flash drive

Presumably you are asking for a technical answer.

I would surprise me if the answer is in fact technical versus nothing more than marketing.

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24-Dec-23 6:48

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k505424-Dec-23 6:00

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24-Dec-23 6:00

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Mike Hankey24-Dec-23 6:34

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24-Dec-23 6:34

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kmoorevs24-Dec-23 9:39

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24-Dec-23 9:39

Thanks!

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Daniel Pfeffer24-Dec-23 10:27

24-Dec-23 10:27

kmoorevs wrote:
Arrays, structure arrays, self-referencing arrays, pointer arrays, etc. are things that interest me.

If you are interested in algorithms, treat yourself to The Art of Computer Programming, 3rd Edition. To date, there are 5 volumes and Knuth plans to add more as long as he holds out. They aren't cheap, but they will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about algorithms.

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