What’s ResourceDigger?
Wrote a utility (long back) for displaying resources from binary files, recently did some modifications as well. We know visual studio does provide a similar functionality but this one’s better with respect to viewing resources. You can view as many resource files as you like (haven’t put a limit). You can drag and drop folders or binaries into the application to get them loaded. Loads up any binary as long LoadLibrary succeeds. Quite useful for a quick view of resources in a binary file, will add editing of resources in the next version of this tool. Hope this helps.
Here is a screenshot of how the tool looks…
How to use ResourceDigger
Easy to use. Just drag and drop a folder or a bunch of executables. Or…
To load an executable press Ctrl + L or Load Exe toolbar button
To load a folder press Ctrl +D, or Scan Folder toolbar button. Select “Load Sub Directories” if you want to recurse into sub-directories.
What features are supported in ResourceDigger
Some of the features supported by the application…
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Viewing animated gifs, normal gifs, pngs, jpegs, bmps, HTML files, manifest files.
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Display group icons, cursors with detailed description of each of them… See screenshot…
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Friendly display of accelerator table, a good way to know all the shortcuts provided by an application…
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Friendly display of string table…
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Displays resources in all available languages
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Animated view of AVI file. With a toolbar to control frames in the AVI file.
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Version display… (there are few issues, I’m working on them)
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Clear view of registry resources…
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Toolbar resource view…
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Menu resource display…
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Hex display of custom resources…
Known Issues
- Hangs up if you give a folder with a humungous list of binaries.
- This is not multithreaded so just be patient until resources finish loading.
Tips
Press ‘*’ on a particular node to expand all its child nodes.
Download Link (rename from .Jpg to .exe)
Do let me know your suggestions…