Only open a metadata reader for the metadata portion of the .NET binary without keeping alive any data associated with the PE reader - IL code will not be available (mdBody in ILMethodDef will return NotAvailable) - Managed resources will be reported back as ILResourceLocation.LocalIn (as always) - Native resources will not be available (none will be returned) - Static data associated with fields will not be available

A function to call to try to get an object that acts as a snapshot of the metadata section of a .NET binary, and from which we can read the metadata. Only used when metadataOnly=true.