There are times when you must examine or change OBJ, EXE, and DLL files. In the visual development environment, you can open any file as a Binary rather than as an ASCII text file and work with both hexadecimal and ASCII versions of the contents. From the command line, you can use the Microsoft Binary File Dumper (DUMPBIN) to edit these types of files.
This section describes the Microsoft COFF Binary File Dumper (DUMPBIN.EXE). DUMPBIN displays information about 32-bit Common Object File Format (COFF) binary files. You can use DUMPBIN to examine COFF object files, standard libraries of COFF objects, executable files, and dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
The following topics are covered in this section: