Is there a Visual Basic 6 decompiler

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I lost the source code from one project I did on the company I m working for and haven t been able to find a Visual Basic 6 decompiler  does that even exists   I only have the EXE that I ve rescued from a user s machine

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I have used VB Decompiler Lite  http   www vb-decompiler org   in the past  and although it does not give you the original source code  it does give you a lot of information such as method names  some variable strings  etc   With more knowledge  or with the full version  it might be possible to get even more than this

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http   www program-transformation org Transform VisualBasicDecompilers  This link provides a lot of resources for VB6 Decompiling  but it seems like it will depend greatly on what you DO have  do you still have the pre-link Object code  EDIT  er    p-code I mean   or just the EXE    Either way  it looks like there s something  take a look in there

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http   www program-transformation org Transform VisualBasicDecompilers  This link provides a lot of resources for VB6 Decompiling  but it seems like it will depend greatly on what you DO have  do you still have the pre-link Object code  EDIT  er    p-code I mean   or just the EXE    Either way  it looks like there s something  take a look in there

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For the final  compiled code of your application  the short answer is    no     Different tools are able to extract different information from the code  e g  the forms setups  and there are P code decompilers  see Edgar s excellent link for such tools   However  up to this day  there is no decompiler for native code  I m not aware of anything similar for other high-level languages either

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For the final  compiled code of your application  the short answer is    no     Different tools are able to extract different information from the code  e g  the forms setups  and there are P code decompilers  see Edgar s excellent link for such tools   However  up to this day  there is no decompiler for native code  I m not aware of anything similar for other high-level languages either

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Yes I think You can get it download and separately its Help files from       vbdecompiler org  Site   and there is a Video on YouTube which explains how to Use it to Get  the Code from an exe file and Save it  I hope that I helped

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For the final  compiled code of your application  the short answer is    no     Different tools are able to extract different information from the code  e g  the forms setups  and there are P code decompilers  see Edgar s excellent link for such tools   However  up to this day  there is no decompiler for native code  I m not aware of anything similar for other high-level languages either

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Yes I think You can get it download and separately its Help files from       vbdecompiler org  Site   and there is a Video on YouTube which explains how to Use it to Get  the Code from an exe file and Save it  I hope that I helped

User · Answer

http   www program-transformation org Transform VisualBasicDecompilers  This link provides a lot of resources for VB6 Decompiling  but it seems like it will depend greatly on what you DO have  do you still have the pre-link Object code  EDIT  er    p-code I mean   or just the EXE    Either way  it looks like there s something  take a look in there

User · Answer

http   www program-transformation org Transform VisualBasicDecompilers  This link provides a lot of resources for VB6 Decompiling  but it seems like it will depend greatly on what you DO have  do you still have the pre-link Object code  EDIT  er    p-code I mean   or just the EXE    Either way  it looks like there s something  take a look in there

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In my own experience where I needed to try and find out what some old VB6 programs were doing  I turned to Process Explorer  Sysinternals   I did the following    Run Process Explorer Run VB6  exe Locate exe in Process Explorer Right click on process Check the  Strings  tab   This didn t show the actual functions  but it listed their names  folders of where files were being copied from and to and if it accessed a DB it would also display the connection string   Enough to help you get an idea  but may be useless for complex programs   The programs I was looking at were pretty basic  no pun intended    YMMV

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Did you try the tool named VBReFormer  http   www decompiler-vb net     We used it a lot the past year in order to get back the source code of our application  source code we had lost 6 years ago  and it worked fine  We were also able to make some user interface changes directly from vbreformer and save them into the exe file

User · Answer

I have used VB Decompiler Lite  http   www vb-decompiler org   in the past  and although it does not give you the original source code  it does give you a lot of information such as method names  some variable strings  etc   With more knowledge  or with the full version  it might be possible to get even more than this

User · Answer

Did you try the tool named VBReFormer  http   www decompiler-vb net     We used it a lot the past year in order to get back the source code of our application  source code we had lost 6 years ago  and it worked fine  We were also able to make some user interface changes directly from vbreformer and save them into the exe file

User · Answer

In my own experience where I needed to try and find out what some old VB6 programs were doing  I turned to Process Explorer  Sysinternals   I did the following    Run Process Explorer Run VB6  exe Locate exe in Process Explorer Right click on process Check the  Strings  tab   This didn t show the actual functions  but it listed their names  folders of where files were being copied from and to and if it accessed a DB it would also display the connection string   Enough to help you get an idea  but may be useless for complex programs   The programs I was looking at were pretty basic  no pun intended    YMMV

User · Answer

For the final  compiled code of your application  the short answer is    no     Different tools are able to extract different information from the code  e g  the forms setups  and there are P code decompilers  see Edgar s excellent link for such tools   However  up to this day  there is no decompiler for native code  I m not aware of anything similar for other high-level languages either

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