The Avalonia port dropped ILSpy's single-instance feature, leaving three
inert surfaces behind: the --newinstance / --noactivate switches, and the
"Allow multiple instances" option were parsed and persisted but never read,
and every launch started a new process.
The former WPF implementation also encoded the executable location in the
mutex name, so two ILSpy builds at different paths never shared an instance.
That broke the Windows "Open with ILSpy" shell command: it launches a fixed
executable and would not reuse a running instance started from elsewhere.
Reimplement it with portable primitives (named Mutex + named pipes, no
P/Invoke): the first launch for a user takes the mutex and listens; a later
launch forwards its arguments over the pipe and exits. The namespace is
derived from machine + user only -- never the location -- so any launcher
reuses the running instance. --instanceid is a runtime reuse filter matched
against the running instance's actual executable identity (via
Environment.ProcessPath, single-file-bundle safe), not part of the mutex
name, so it never re-introduces the location partitioning it replaces. The
VS add-in passes its bundled exe path as --instanceid to prefer its own
build while still sharing with a plain launch of that same executable.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8:Claude Code
Backfills the standard MIT X11 header on hand-written files that never
got one, attributing each to its first-commit author and year from git
history. Code vendored from dotnet/runtime and Humanizr/Humanizer gets
its origin's license lines and a provenance note instead. Generated
files (Resources.Designer.cs, the version-info template), tool-managed
suppression files, and BAML test-case fixtures intentionally stay
header-less.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
* Migrate ILSpy.AddIn.VS2022 to SDK-style VSIX project
* Retire the legacy VS2017/2019 ILSpy add-in
* Build the VS extension via dotnet build on the slnx
* Inline ILSpy.AddIn.Shared into ILSpy.AddIn.VS2022
* Restore the VS add-in menus broken by the SDK-style migration
Siegfried Pammer
Christoph Wille
Peter Crabtree
Andreas Weizel
dotnet format
Daniel Grunwald