How to get source code of a Windows executable

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I ve got some old Windows executable files  How can I edit them with Visual Studio 2010  What are the ways to see an exe s source code

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I would  and have  used IDA Pro to decompile executables  It creates semi-complete code  you can decompile to assembly or C   If you have a copy of the debug symbols around  load those into IDA before decompiling and it will be able to name many of the functions  parameters  etc

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If it is native code  you can disassemble it  But you wont see the original code as writte by the programmer  You will see the code produces by the compiler  assembler   This code is possibly optimized and although it is semantically equivalent  it can be much harder to read than normal ASM   If it is bytecode  MSIL or javabytecode   there are decompiler which can product pretty good sourcecode  For  net  this would be reflector

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Use PE Explorer click here to know more and download

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For Any   Exe file written in any language  You can view the source code with hiew  otherwise Hackers view   You can download it at www hiew ru  It will be the demo version but still can view the code    After this follow these steps    Press alt f2 to navigate to the file   Press enter to see its assembly   c   code

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You can t get the C   source from an exe  and you can only get some version of the C  source via reflection

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There s nothing you can do about it i m afraid as you won t be able to view it in a readable format  it s pretty much intentional and it ll show the interpreted machine code  there would be no formatting or comments as you normally get in  cs  c files   It s pretty much a hit and miss scenario   Someone has already asked about it on another website

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If the program was written in C  you can get the source code in almost its original form using  NET Reflector  You won t be able to see comments and local variable names  but it is very readable   If it was written C   it s not so easy    even if you could decompile the code into valid C   it is unlikely that it will resemble the original source because of inlined functions and optimizations which are hard to reverse   Please note that by reverse engineering and modifying the source code you might breaking the terms of use of the programs unless you wrote them yourself or have permission from the author

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