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[7 VII 7]

Hey guys, I am very excited that I am able to find a .Net forum out there for us. Well I just started using .Net, I have used VB for about 1 year now and I love the program. My question is simple.

Is there a way to read VB .Net code from a stand alone .exe?

if I download a .exe made in VB .net can I look at the code from the .exe?

Thanks!

[Pino]

Welcome

Is there a way to read VB .Net code from a stand alone .exe?

Nope it requires the framework to be insatlled on the computer

if I download a .exe made in VB .net can I look at the code from the .exe?

Thanks!

Nope why would you want to do this

Pino

[sevenhalo]

Kinda sort of...

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\ildasm.exe

This is the disassembler for the .Net framework. You can see what is exposed and only if they didn't obfuscate it or copyright the material.

Since .Net is an OOP language, you're seeing the objects and what they can do. Not how they do it or anything of that nature. But it is useful...?

[7 VII 7]

My Prof. sends us .exe to get an idea of how to do a project, and he is wondering if we can do this so that we can see the stucture of functions and what not.

[calvin-c]

If your Prof doesn't already know then I'd get a different Prof. If he does then he's testing you & the correct answer would be as given earlier-no, except via the disassembler if they didn't obfuscate or copyright it.

[jmcilhinney]

Your professor should be giving you uncompiled code, not compiled executables. This may be something you have no control over, but I'd ask him why he's choosing to give you compiled executables rather than uncompiled code.