Your Chance to Win 1 of 50 Licenses for Red Gate’s .NET Reflector Professional

Most of my readers are probably aware of Red Gate’s decision to no longer offer a free edition of Reflector, the .NET assembly decompiler and analyzer. Much has already been said about the decision, and I am not going to jump in to debate the politics/ethics of the decision at this time. The fact is, Reflector is a great utility for any .NET developer’s toolbox. I think that, in the end, this move is going to create some competition in the market and hopefully drive Reflector and its competitors to deliver better, more feature-rich tools. We have already seen a couple of free alternatives pop up (here and here).

Red Gate has heard the concerns of the community and contacted me about running a promotion to help promote some goodwill. Over the next two weeks, you will have two chances to enter a contest sponsored by Red Gate. There will be 50 winners, each receiving a license for .NET Reflector Professional. There are two ways to enter:

  1. Leave a comment on this blog post. At the end of the contest I will choose, at random, 25 winners.
  2. Follow me on Twitter and tweet this message. I will choose 25 random winners from the list of tweets.

Hey @alvinashcraft. I want a copy of Reflector 7 from @redgate. #dewdrop

Here are a few rules/disclaimers/disclosures:

  • You can only win one license. If the same person is chosen in both the comments and tweets, another random name will be drawn.
  • The contest begins today, February 21, 2011 and ends on Friday, March 4, 2011.
  • Winners will be contacted no later than Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
  • As a Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate, I have free NFR licenses for Reflector and ANTS Profiler for personal use. I have not been compensated by Red Gate in any other way.
  • Gifts, bribes, complements, etc. will have NO influence on the outcome of this contest.

Good luck and thanks for reading The Dew!

 

 

127 thoughts on “Your Chance to Win 1 of 50 Licenses for Red Gate’s .NET Reflector Professional”

  3. Love the blog, Alvin. I’ve used Reflector for years and would like to be considered for one of the licenses you are giving away.
    Cheers

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  19. Hey alvinashcraft. I want a copy of Reflector 7 from @redgate. Now they’ve changed I think they’re going to have a battle keeping “feature-parity” with Resharper/ILSpy who are coming on really fast..

  21. Very cool idea to promote Reflector. I’d love to keep it “free” by winning a Pro license.

    Thanks for providing this.

  26. I am so eager to win a free redgate reflector tool from @redgate.
    Thanks @alvinashcraft

  31. Relector and ANTS are hard to live without. Please send me a free Reflector Pro. Thanks. BTW thanks for the work you do helping us keep up with whats going on.

  35. A copy of reflector wouldn’t hurt!.. Keep up the good work with the Morning Dew!

    Regards,
    Morten

  51. I’m huge fan of reflector, nice to have a license.
    Now I’m counting on JetBrains, hope they succeed in their free version.

    Thanks for the contest.

  54. I’ve been dreading the thought of not being able to use Reflector – I’d love to carry on using it, rather than have to switch to an alternative or (shudder) go back to poring over the output from ILDASM

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  68. reflector is must have tool. i have grown my klowledge of .net thanks to picking in base library with this tool.

  70. Hey Alvin – I read your blog every day before I start working! Gives me something to look forward to in the morning. I’d love a free copy of Reflector, it’s an extremely useful tool to me! Thank you.

  72. Great, not a bad thing that Reflector is going kind of commercial, good for the competition, and probably goog for the future of Reflector, Toad followed a similar process….!

  73. Reflector going commercial is great for the community. The cost is reasonable and it will bring competition. Thanks for the opportunity to win a free license.

  76. The cost is certainly worth the benefit for Reflector, but since you’re offering… I’d love a free copy!
    Great blog, btw.

  84. Thanks for posting the alternatives. Reflector has been great for years. Please include me in the contest to receive a free copy.

  106. Sign me up! IMO RedGate would have generated much more goodwill had they allowed the free version to continue working forever, even if there were no new updates. Instead, they upset the developer community, and now there are at least two strong new competitors.

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  126. Nice contest in a very interesting blog!
    I hope win a Reflector License.

    Thanks in advance

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