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    Well, I recently installed Vista, but my backed up files were corrupted somehow. Luckily I had nothing REALLY important apart from my visual basic projects. I DO still have the .exe's however (Uploaded on my webspace).

    All I want to know is if it is possible to decompile the exe back into it's .prj/.frm/.frx state. If someone could help me with this, I will LOVE YOU FOR LIFE.

    It's really important to get these back (For me) a I spent A LONG time on them.

    Thank you very much :)
     
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    Bad news is there is no real way to decompile them back into VB code. There are some that decompile into ASM and some can get about 3% of the code back, but for the most part there is nothing you can really do.
     
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    Aww :'(

    I just googled some decompilers but the code was all... Weird :(

    Also, now that I think of it, PM me any links you find. If it's posted in public, people could do some bad shit :eek:

    EDIT: There must be SOME way. How did Covey get the SwiftIRC thing?
     
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    The code is ASM, pure machine code. It's still good, just not VB6 code.

    Simple truth is, you can't. Look at the other 500+ topics about decompiling and face the hard truth.
     
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    Decompiling?

    He used a disassembler and cracked it, I'm assuming. Disassemblers decompile executables in to Assembly code, which is the core set of instructions your computer uses. The code you received upon decompiling your Visual Basic executables is ASM. As Jazz stated, ASM is still good code, it is just rediculously hard to use practically for anything other than debugging, which is why there are other languages to program, which generate this ASM code upon compiling.

    There is no way to get your original source back. Let me assure you that a "long time" is not just a few hours on each project too. Some of the bigger projects can take months and months on end. I'm assuming you had nothing of the like, so be thankful you didn't lose anything important. It is wise to keep backups.
     
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    Thanks for the help guys.

    I guess I'll have to start again. It sucks, but oh well. There are reasons behind everything, so maybe I'll learn something important out of this.
     
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    I have found a decomplier.. go to katz.cd and search vb decomplier and ull find it, I decomplied ES
     
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    Decompiling?

    o nos, now u ave my sauce codez
     
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    Decompiling?

    Oh! What a massive fail you have thar!
     
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