Mono(mono-api-info)

💖 mono-api-info — Mono(mono-api-info) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to read the IL of your assemblies like it's a group chat screenshot 🫶 this one lives in the Mono family of manpages, so you already know it's giving utility-tool realness ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

mono-api-info — expose IL structure of CLR assemblies as XML. no cap, that's literally the whole job 🌸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mono-api-info [--abi] assembly1.dll assembly2.exe ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this tool pops open your CLR assemblies, examines their IL, and hands you back XML. That's it. That's the service. 💅

By default it only tells you about the public API of the assemblies it's scanning. Which lowkey makes it iconic for comparing API compatibility between different versions of libraries — like, "did my fave lib ghost me in v2.0 or are we still compatible?" energy 😭💖

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --abi — show the ABI instead of the API. and what does that mean, bestie? it means non-static fields (yes, even the non-public ones 🙈) that are not marked as [NonSerialized()]. periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Andrés G. Aragoneses 🫶

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010 LindenLab. Released under BSD license. 🌈 (yes we love a permissive license moment)

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⭐ MAILING LISTS ⭐

Visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list for details. go say hi, they don't bite 🎀

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🌸 WEB SITE 🌸

Visit http://www.mono-project.com for details ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• mono(1) — the main character, obviously 👑

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k that's the whole page bestie, you ate, now go scan some assemblies 💅

sign-off time: this was Mono(mono-api-info), sourced from the Mono(mono-api-info) manual page (same name top and bottom, symmetrical queen) 🧚💖