Re: Reverse Engineering a VB exe

From: Steven Burn (pvt_at_noyb.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:05:59 +0100

You can't de-compile VB6 app's to the original source code, simple as that
(unless you work for Microsoft of course).

Why not just ask the person that wrote the app to modify it for you? 

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"datakeepr" <datakeepr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F07A51B6-04A0-4741-8870-207E282C0E2E@microsoft.com...
> I did find out by openning it in UltraEdit32 that it refers to
MSVBVM6.DLL,
> so this must be developed in VB6.
>
> "Tim Baur" wrote:
>
> > =?Utf-8?B?ZGF0YWtlZXBy?= <datakeepr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > news:65CD30B0-359D-4A6A-9399-22062B3352AC@microsoft.com:
> >
> > > I have an exe program developed in VB4 (i think), but do not have the
> > > source code.  It runs on an NT40 server of which I am relocating to a
> > > W2000 server.  The VB program I believe makes a call to a now
> > > "non-existent" folder.  Is there any way to recover/reverse engineer
> > > to the source code, make adjustments and then recompile this program.
> > > I have VB5.0 and Visio 2000 only to work with at this point.
> > >
> >
> > There are decompilers available for this kind of thing, but decompiling
the
> > exe almost certainly won't be faster than rewriting the app.  Compiled
code
> > reads nothing like source code.
> >
> > If you don't know what folder is supposed to be there, it might be
possible
> > to use FileMon to see what the app is looking for.  You could then
recreate
> > the folder on the OS.
> >
> > I think there are also utilities on the market that will create a "fake"
> > folder in your file system.  It works like a Unix alias.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >

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