Decompile Vb6 App

alo,

i need some help please... i wrote an app for my company in vb6, but have since lost the source code. i have the completed .exe, and now they're asking for me to make some changes to it (they're going to buy it from me... $$$$!!!!) is there a way to decompile it back to it's source code? anything i found was for vb2-4 only. looking through some programming forums, it seems like this is a taboo, as it is given the appearance of hacking someone else's program. any assistance would be appreciated, otherwise i'll have to rewrite the whole damn thing. :rant: (can't blame anyone else but myself though)

#128309

I don't think it's possible to get it turned back into vb code unless you compiled it into "pseudo-code" (I think VB 2-4 used pcode only, so that's why you can find those resources).

edit: reading up on this a bit, it seems that the vb6 version of pcode is different from the older ones. :|

#128325

i think i remember a program that did just this. however if i remember correctly it could only recovered bits and pieces rather than the entire thing.

-The Unknown

#128342

Yeah decompiling generaly doesnt go very well. I would just rewrite it if its simple egnouf (after all its like rewriting a paper you wrote, it sucks, but you dont have to figgure anything out), or you could always thell them the trouth, and say take 20% off the price.

#128661

thanks folks... i decided to start rewriting it today.

#128684

You should probably write it in something better than VB if you're going to be selling it.

May I recommend Python?

http://python.org

#128691

i just started looking at python as something i wanted to learn as well... but since time is a factor, for this project i won't be able to learn and complete it what i need by monday (due date)

thanks

#128780