decimation / novus

Low-level utilities and tools for working with the CLR and memory.

Novus

Low-level utilities and tools for working with the CLR, CLR internal structures, and memory. Improved version of NeoCore.

Goals

Novus aims to provide functionality similar to that of ClrMD, WinDbg SOS, and Reflection but in a more detailed fashion while also exposing more underlying metadata and CLR functionality.

Novus also allows for manipulation of the CLR and low-level operations with managed objects. Additionally, Novus doesn't require attachment of a debugger to the process to acquire metadata. All metadata is acquired through memory or low-level functions.

Features

• Calculating heap size of managed objects
• Taking the address of managed objects
• Pointer to managed types
• Pinning unblittable objects
• And much more

Compatibility

• 64-bit (and partial 32-bit support)
• Windows
• .NET CLR 5.0
• Workstation GC

novus's Issues

Any plans to, if this ends up being discovered to be possible, create a similar project to Novus for NativeAOT?

not issue

just saying, great project, helped me a lot

Any plans to release this as a nuget pkg?

eom

Changes in .NET structure

As of about a week ago the structure of MethodTable was slightly changed, among others in CoreCLR.
You may want to change this, or don't, it's largely inconsequential, but something to take note of.

I did make the changes in my repo, so if you do choose to change the structure you're free to just copy what I did (C# and D are very similar so this should be easy)

Also, is this project still being maintained? Just curious because as far as I know you're the only other person doing this sort of thing, and I'm not sure what your plans are going forward.