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Written like an advertisement

The wording of the Red Gate section of this article sounds like it has been written by Red Gate themselves. Statements such as "A new version, V6... is the result of a great deal of work with the community of .NET Reflector users in beta-test" are unsubstantiated and unquantifiable. Therefore, I'm adding a 'neutrality disputed' flag to the article.

There has been a great deal of controversy over Red Gate's acquisition of Reflector... I am considering adding a section to discuss the issues, with links to well-recognized authorities in the software development field. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sngbrdb (talk • contribs) 17:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure that the whole article suffers from a lack of neutrality. I agree that the bit you quote could do with deleting or rewording, but that's a fairly simple point fix. Feel free to add a section on the purchase, but be careful that it doesn't stray into being WP:ORIG. Not saying that you'd go there, but there will obviously be a danger that people will run with a section in a direction that isn't very constructive. Mrh30 (talk) 12:56, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the offending remarks, and otherwise edited and restructured that whole section to improve the accuracy and bring it up to date. Also therefore removed the NPOV dispute section at the top. Bart.Read (talk) 17:54, 8 Sept 2011 (UTC)

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This is the best of its type IMHO, but I'm not sure it warrants an entry of its own. The history of decompilers for .NET could be a good article, with a better title perhaps :-), if someone has time...

This program defined a new category one could call "browser/decompiler/analysis tools". It is not really a "decompiler" in the classical sense so mentioning it only in this context is too narrow. It is a browsing, learning and investigation tool. A lot of people say "reflector it" to describe what they are doing, Google brings this up as the first result when looking for "Reflector". I'd say it should have an artice that describes more what it is being used for and link from different places.

Soon to not be free

"Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March." 69.181.161.106 (talk) 04:48, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is it too soon to update the article? Maghnus (talk) 23:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's already some information in the article about the fact that it will become a paid-for product. But feel free to add to it. Remember to keep to WP:NPOV though. Mrh30 (talk) 11:51, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]