All they had were the compiled DLLs. Thirty-seven of them, baked in mystery.
[INFO] RouteOptimizer: Using ModernRouteOptimizer [INFO] Delivery ETA: 6.2 hours (previous: 8.7 hours) Leo leaned back. The trial still had three days left, but he didn’t need them. He opened the company credit card form and typed: .NET Reflector Professional v11.1.0.2169 – 1 license – perpetual with one year maintenance.
The tree view exploded: namespaces, classes, methods. He clicked on the OptimizeDeliverySequence method. In the right pane, the decompiled source code materialized like a ghost writing itself.
Leo opened Visual Studio, then launched . The splash screen appeared—a familiar deep blue with the stylized magnifying glass over a C# bracket. "Loading assembly cache," it said. Then, "Ready."
Leo switched to . One of the killer features in this version—the ability to step into decompiled code as if it were original source. He attached the debugger to the running Windows service, set a breakpoint on GetApproximateRoadDistance , and watched the stack trace unwind. The method was returning straight-line Euclidean distance, then multiplying by 1.6. "Approximate," indeed.
