Build, Deployment, and Configuration Tools (.NET Framework)

Generates a file that has an assembly manifest from modules or resource files.

Lets you configure the CorFlags section of the header of a portable executable (PE) image.

Lets you view and manipulate the contents of the global assembly cache and download cache.

Generates a portable executable (PE) file from Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL). You can run the resulting executable to determine whether the MSIL performs as expected.

Takes a portable executable (PE) file that contains Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) code and creates a text file that can be input to the MSIL Assembler (Ilasm.exe).

Enables you to install and uninstall server resources by executing the installer components in a specified assembly. (Works with classes in the System.Configuration.Install namespace.)

Reads text files that contain licensing information and produces a .licenses file that can be embedded in a common language runtime executable as a resource.

Lets you create, edit, and sign application and deployment manifests. As a command-line tool, Mage.exe can be run from both batch scripts and other Windows-based applications, including ASP.NET applications.

Supports the same functionality as the command-line tool Mage.exe, but uses a Windows-based user interface (UI).

Enables you to tune native image assemblies using common end-user scenarios. Mpgo.exe allows the generation and consumption of profile data for native image application assemblies (not the .NET Framework assemblies) using training scenarios selected by the application developer.

Improves the performance of managed applications through the use of native images (files containing compiled processor-specific machine code). The runtime can use native images from the cache instead of using the just-in-time (JIT) compiler to compile the original assembly.

Converts text (.txt or .restext) files and XML-based resource format (.resx) files to common language runtime binary (.resources) files that can be embedded in a runtime binary executable or compiled into satellite assemblies.

Manages isolated storage; provides options for listing the user's stores and deleting them.

Exports a .NET Framework assembly that is compiled as a .winmdobj file into a Windows Runtime component, which is packaged as a .winmd file that contains both Windows Runtime metadata and implementation information.

Helps you localize user interface (UI) resources (.resx or .resources files) that are used by Windows Forms. You can translate strings, and then size, move, and hide controls to accommodate the localized strings.

Provides a single alphabetical listing of all the tools in the .NET Framework Tools section of the documentation.

Includes graphical and command-line tools that provide information about the internal common language runtime environment, help you find and fix bugs in applications that target the common language runtime, and let you view assembly binds.

Includes command-line tools that help you perform security-related tasks and test your components and applications before you deploy them.

Includes tools that enable interaction between unmanaged COM components and .NET Framework managed code.

Includes the following additional tools: SqlMetal Code Generation Tool and Windows Forms Class Viewer.