Unable to see the decompiled code of System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter.ToDateTime(string) using ILSpy/Reflector?

Question

I am trying to see the actual implementation detail of System.Management. ManagementDateTimeConverter.ToDateTime (string) using ILspy? It didn't show anything. Then I thought it's probably a bug in ILSpy and tried to see the decompiled code using Reflector - but it also doesn't show details (please see below code snippet) either.

Basically I am trying to see how the cim datetime will be parsed - for details, you may refer to: ( What format is this time value in? , Parse CIM_DateTime to .Net DateTime )

Questions

1. Why am I not able to see the decompiled code of this specific function/assembly?

2. any details on how managementdatetimeconverter parses the stringof type CIM DateTime?

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// System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter
/// <summary>Converts a given DMTF datetime to <see cref="T:System.DateTime" />. The returned <see cref="T:System.DateTime" /> will be in the current time zone of the system.          </summary>
/// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.DateTime" /> that represents the given DMTF datetime.</returns>
/// <param name="dmtfDate">A string representing the datetime in DMTF format.</param>
public static DateTime ToDateTime(string dmtfDate)
{
}

Answer 1

Thanks for all the quick comments - it helped me to find a way to see the implementation of ToDateTim(..) am looking for.

Visual Studio properties windows showing the system.management assembly location as 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Reference Assemblies\\Microsoft\\Framework.NETFramework\\v4.5****System.Management.dll****'. So, I have used this to reflect over to see the implementation.

Once I saw the above comments, which confirms its working for others, I tried to see which assembly has been loaded during runtime - Debug + Modules window showed that the assembly has been loaded from "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.Net\\assembly\\GAC_MSIL\\System.Management\\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a**System.Management.dll**" - so reflecting over it showed that actual code.

Best Regards!

Answer 2

With ILSpy, you can also load the assembly from the GAC.

Menu "File > Open from GAC..."