ProtobufDecoder vs OpenPDN

ProtobufDecoder

A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer (by sandermvanvliet)

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Paint.NET source (v3.36.7; prior to non-MIT license change) (by rivy)

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ProtobufDecoder		OpenPDN
	Project
5	Mentions	2
66	Stars	152
-	Growth	-
6.6	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	over 9 years ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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ProtobufDecoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of ProtobufDecoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024

Decoding protobuf (and message formats in general) can be such a pain and fun at the same time.
I’ve written ProtobufDecoder which takes a different approach: analyze the structure of the actual messages to help you figure out the protobuf structure of a message.
https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021
Show HN: ProtobufDecoder, Inspect Protobuf Messages
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2021
Announcing: ProtobufDecoder, inspect and analyze Protobuf messages
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Dec 2021

Get it while it’s fresh: https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder/releases/tag/0.2.0

OpenPDN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenPDN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021

Paint.NET was open source, it's the most beautiful and responsive non-devs oriented .NET desktop app I have ever encountered.

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