FindRef - find those references!

findref is a simple dotnet global tool designed for searching through a directory of DLLs after a given assembly reference. It supports searching through assemblies targeting netstandard, netcoreapp or .NET Framework

Installing

Prerequisite: .NET Core SDK >= 2.1

$ dotnet tool install --global findref

Usage

$ findref -h
Usage:  [arguments] [options]

Arguments:
  assemblyname                the name of the assembly to look for references to. Case insensitive, matches if the FullName is equal to the argument.

Options:
  -?|-h|--help                Show help information
  -d|--directory <DIRECTORY>  the root directory to search through (default: working directory)
  -r|--recursive              search directory recursively
  -v|--verbose                write verbose output to stdout
  -e|--regex                  use assemblyname argument as regex pattern

$ findref -v -d $REPOS/FindRef/src/bin/debug/netcoreapp2.1/ dnlib
Loading DLLs from 'src/bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.1/'
FindRef.dll (1.0.0.0) has a reference to dnlib (3.1.0.0)

Run from source

$ git clone https://github.com/henrihs/findref.git
$ cd findref/src
$ dotnet run -- -r McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils

FindRef.dll has a reference to McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils

Run using Docker

docker run --rm -it --volume="$PWD:/assemblies:ro" henrihs/findref [arguments] [options]

Example, to search for NewtonSoft.Json in the current directoy, use:

docker run --rm -it --volume="$PWD:/assemblies:ro" henrihs/findref -d . Newtonsoft.Json

Building the image locally

docker build -t henrihs/findref .