How to get initial value of fields when value is a string?

[earlz]

Hi, I'm trying to use Mono.Cecil to track down every single string in a
.Net application. One of the problems I'm having is I can't seem to get the
value of an initial field value when it's a string.
Example:

class Foo {
public string Bar="foobar"; //how to get foobar?
}

When I iterate over the Fields member of the Mono.Cecil type for Foo, I can
get a reference to Bar, but it says it has an initial value of byte[0].

Any ideas how to get this?

[Greg Young]

There is a constructor that's generated that sets it...

Post by earlz
Hi, I'm trying to use Mono.Cecil to track down every single string in a
.Net application. One of the problems I'm having is I can't seem to get the
value of an initial field value when it's a string.
class Foo {
public string Bar="foobar"; //how to get foobar?
}
When I iterate over the Fields member of the Mono.Cecil type for Foo, I
can get a reference to Bar, but it says it has an initial value of byte[0].
Any ideas how to get this?
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mono-cecil

[earlz]

Ah, just now thought to actually analyze the IL. I had assumed that there
was some kind of special metadata for strings. Guess it's just another
object when it boils down to IL level.

Post by Greg Young
There is a constructor that's generated that sets it...

Post by earlz
Hi, I'm trying to use Mono.Cecil to track down every single string in a
.Net application. One of the problems I'm having is I can't seem to get the
value of an initial field value when it's a string.
class Foo {
public string Bar="foobar"; //how to get foobar?
}
When I iterate over the Fields member of the Mono.Cecil type for Foo, I
can get a reference to Bar, but it says it has an initial value of byte[0].
Any ideas how to get this?
--
--
mono-cecil

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