Re: OT - Debug Windows EXE

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Thanks Jay,

Assembly is good enough. I also ran into a VB decompiler that was a bit
helpful as far as reading the code. Now all I have to do is find the address
of the change I need to make and make the change in machine code. (too much
fun) :)

AliR.

"Jay Daniel" <JayDaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AliR,

I haven't fired up VS2003 in a while, but at least in VS2005, you can
use
the Debug->Attach to process command. Just run the application, select
attach to process, and then choose the process. You'll have no high-level
source to step through without the PDB, but you will be able to break
execution, restart, and single-step in assembly.

-Jay Daniel

--
Jay Daniel


"AliR" wrote:

Hi Guys,

Sorry about the offtopic message.

I have an old exe (16 bit). Don't have the source. I want to step
throught
the exe. I tried loading it in VS 2003 and even 4.1 but couldn't get it
to
do it.

I remember doing that with exe's back in DOS days. Opening the exe in
TASM
and stepping through the exe.

Does anyone know of a program that will let me do this?

Ali





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