I learnt yesterday that Lutz Roeder, who produces the Reflector tool for .NET, has decided that it is time to move on to other things and is ceasing further development on Reflector. If you're a serious .NET developer then you'll already know about Reflector; it is one of those must-have tools for .NET development and one that I use on an almost daily basis. Lutz has done an amazing job in producing and supporting this tool and making it freely available to the developer community for the last eight years or so and I'm sure many other .NET developers would join me in thanking him for his efforts.
However its not all bad news and this is not the end of the line for Reflector. Quite the opposite in fact. Lutz has reached an agreement with Redgate and they are going to support and develop Reflector from this point forward. This is fantastic news! I have mentioned Redgate several times on this blog before because they produce some really fantastic tools for .NET and SQL development and support the invaluable PInvoke wiki and PInvoke add-in for Visual Studio. I have every confidence that they will take Reflector forward to make it an even better and more useful tool and they have promised to continue making a free version available to developers, which is wonderful news.
In case you haven't used Reflector before, you can download it from the Redgate Reflector site. Reflector supports a plug-in architecture and there are a whole host of weird, wacky and downright useful plugins that you can also download for free.
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