The GUI has the metadata-tables view; the CLI had nothing, so checking
e.g. which MethodSemantics rows reference a Property row required a
hand-written System.Reflection.Metadata script. --dump-table <name>
prints every row of a table (RID, token, resolved names, heap offsets,
coded indexes) as an aligned text table, or as JSON with --json, for
the same 39 Cor tables the GUI shows.
Row enumeration for tables without public SRM row access lives in
MetadataExtensions next to the existing GetMethodSemantics helper, so
the GUI's raw-reading table nodes can be folded onto the shared
readers later. Every table's columns are spelled out explicitly in
ECMA-335 declaration order: reflecting over the SRM row structs would
tie the output (and its column order) to runtime internals, and
deterministic output is the point of the feature. JSON uses
System.Text.Json from the shared framework, so no new package
reference is needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5:Claude Code
Siegfried Pammer