How do you open .dll files to see what is written inside?

Answer 1

There's more than one way to do it (always is).

You could always try a hex editor. Those will open anything (and I do mean anything) but unless you understand hexadecimal you're not going to get much out of it.

I would personally suggest a resource editor. Most should be able to open most dll files. They show all the "resources" that are inside, such as images, sounds, ect. I happen to use ResHacker, it works pretty well and is free. Here's the address: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

Answer 2

View Contents Of Dll

Answer 3

A DLL file is a compiled library or program. Viewing the properties of the DLL provides you with a number of public items that relate to the DLL, these are things like Developer, version etc. The developer can also mention what properties or functions can be called from that dll. A DLL is not like a document, you can not open it and read the contents.

Answer 4

The .DLL file can be opened in Windows WordPad to see immediately what is written inside. But most of the file content will not be human readable.

Answer 5

.dll files stand for dynamic link library you cannot see the coding s inside a .dll file or any other file for that matter unless you also have the source code you can use hex editor but that is almost impossible to decode and use

Answer 6

Ofcourse by opening the file in the notepad.
but the data will be out of our understanding as the data will be encrypted to some other coding whichur comp will not support.
ultimately u cannt read a .dll files

Answer 7

you can read the function name which are resides in to the .dll files
there parameter etc by PE Explorer

Answer 8

you cannot the read anything in .dll file even bill gates cannot understand it

Answer 9

You can open them with a "dependency" browser like Dependency Walker... But you will not "see" much thing...if you don't know what to look for.