ILSpy VS AvaloniaILSpy

Compare ILSpy vs AvaloniaILSpy and see what are their differences.

ILSpy

.NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform! (by icsharpcode)

AvaloniaILSpy

Avalonia-based .NET Decompiler (port of ILSpy) (by icsharpcode)
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ILSpy AvaloniaILSpy
42 4
20,157 1,403
1.9% 3.2%
9.2 4.4
4 days ago 5 months ago
C# C#
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ILSpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of ILSpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.

AvaloniaILSpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of AvaloniaILSpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
  • C# Testing Playgrounds for old versions?
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 Aug 2023
    Keep in mind there's AvaloniaILSpy for non-Windows users.
  • Paint.net 4.3 is now available
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2021
    Sad that it is not running on macOS. For the last few years I used Gimp, but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive).

    Recently I needed to do some ad-hoc drawings and I found myself using one of these online paint clones. There is plenty of them.

    I would really love to have Paint.NET on macOS. I think MS efforts for making .NET cross platforms are somehow half-assed. They ported just as much to run web apps and REST services but totally gave up on GUI stuff. Maybe it's their strategy to lock devs to windows machines, as there are many tools like ILSpy that .NET devs often use.

    The community answer, the last time I checked, was AvaloniaUI (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia) which is cross platform port of WPF (at least XAML based). ILSpy is already ported to it (https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy) but it runs poorly on Linux (I have experienced random crashes and UI problems). I hope the project will do well and within a year or two we will also see port of Pain.NET.

  • Does react compile faster on Mac?
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 10 Apr 2021
    If you need to view IL on Linux/Mac, you can use this: https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy
  • Avalonia 0.10.0 Release – A cross platform XAML framework for .NET
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 22 Jan 2021
    ILSpy - icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy: Avalonia-based .NET Decompiler (port of ILSpy) (github.com)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ILSpy and AvaloniaILSpy you can also consider the following projects:

dnSpy - .NET debugger and assembly editor [Moved to: https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy]

release - Downloads for Paint.NET, such as installer EXEs and portable ZIPs

JustDecompile Engine - The decompilation engine of JustDecompile

GimpPs - Gimp Theme to be more photoshop like

dnSpy

Avalonia.FuncUI - Develop cross-plattform MVU GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia! [Moved to: https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI]

UndertaleModTool - The most complete tool for modding, decompiling and unpacking Undertale (and other Game Maker: Studio games!)

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

unity-astar - A Star (A*) algorithm in C# focused on performance and setup for Unity

mtPaint - Mark Tyler's Painting Program

Celeste - Celeste Bugs & Issue Tracker + some Source Code

jspaint - 🎨 Classic MS Paint, REVIVED + ✨Extras