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240147 2004-05-29 04:55:00 I need a visual basic 6 decompiler and look at how a program my friend made works.I want to know how the code works behind the .exe made by visual basic

Does anybody know of a good decompiler?

I downloaded a decompiler but said it needed the .NEt Framework veresion 1.1.4322

I was linked to this site

Which one am i suppose to download?

msdn.microsoft.com

HELP!
yingxuan (3330)
240148 2004-05-29 06:19:00 You can't decode VB6 programs. The .net program that it said you need is for VB.NET.

Daniel
dwnz2003 (5250)
240149 2004-05-29 06:41:00 As mentioned, it is NOT possible to decompile vb6 code into anything intelligible.

The best you would get out of a VB 6 decompiler would be assembly code, and that can't be read in anything that would reconstruct the VB source code.

Earlier VB versions used an intermediate code, which could be decompiled to a degree.
godfather (25)
240150 2004-05-30 03:06:00 Are there anyway to look at the code if the program has been made by vb.net 6? yingxuan (3330)
240151 2004-05-30 04:02:00 Ask the person who wrote the code for a copy. :D Disassembling object code is not for the faint hearted. Graham L (2)
240152 2004-05-30 04:25:00 Vb6 and VB.NET are to different versions of VB. VB 6 is version 6 and VB.net is version 7 (i think). There code s slightly different as well, VB 6 is way easier to use dwnz2003 (5250)
240153 2004-05-30 04:27:00 yeah vb 6 .net i fink.Ah im confused.didn't know there were two versions yingxuan (3330)
240154 2004-05-30 04:30:00 There are 2 version, One is called VB 6 and the Other is called VB.NET, VB.NET is the latest version. They have nothing to do with each other

Daniel
dwnz2003 (5250)
240155 2004-05-31 05:19:00 I need a vb.net decompiler.Does anybody know of a free trial version anywhere? yingxuan (3330)
240156 2004-05-31 21:19:00 asm makes my head hurt...

i took part in a hacking competition once to try beat the password protection for a program - i stared at decompiled code for about 8 hours in one day. In the end i just wrote a brute force program that went through thousands of combinations such as aaaaaaaa, aaaaaaab etc >_< and got it in 3 hours!

Decompiling isn't worth it, ask for the source code from the author or if they don't give it to you then don't bother, theres a probably a reason they don't want you to see it! Plus if they're smart they would've included a license agreement with the program and states that you can't reverse engineer/decompile it.

- David
DangerousDave (697)
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