Decompiling??? is it possible?

[Phantom Coder]

Hello everyone it been a long time since I was on here. I got into a car accident and been out of it for awhile.

The question I was wanting to know is there a way to decompile vb.net 2005 compiled program. I had a hard drive crash that made my hard drive a glorified paper weight, and all I have is the compiled program you people helped me with on this forum. I was hoping I could rescue some of the code I written for it.

I searched the web but I could not find anything I thought would work, or it was some huge article that was long and boring.

Thanks in advance

Phantom Coder

[jmcilhinney]

ildasm.exe (Intermediate Language Disassembler) is provided with the Framework SDK. You can also use .NET Reflector to get a nice look inside .NET assemblies.

[JuggaloBrotha]

nice, too bad it doesn't give you direct source code :P

[brendan6]

wow....i don't know how that will even help you :P What language would this be similar to?

[Crash893]

where can you download that .exe

i googled it but so far all the pages just talk about it but dont offer it

[jmcilhinney]

where can you download that .exe

i googled it but so far all the pages just talk about it but dont offer it

Do you mean ildasm? If so then, as I said, it's part of the .NET Framework SDK. If you've installed Visual Studio then you've installed the .NET Framework SDK.

If you mean .NET Reflector then this was the first result returned by Google.com.au when searching for .net reflector. I can't speak for any other localised Google sites.

[aldrean]

Yes Jm was right, it was part of the .NET Framework SDK.In my VS 2005 Pro edition, it was named MSIL Disassembler.

[jmcilhinney]

wow....i don't know how that will even help you :P What language would this be similar to?

If you use ildasm try it with the /source switch. As the documentation says:

Shows original source lines as comments.

but you knew that already from when you read the documentation yourself, right?

[Valleysboy1978]

Is it included in the Express version as many developers here use that edition?

[jmcilhinney]

If you want to know if it's present you search your hard drive for ildasm.exe. If it's not present you install the .NET Framework SDK.

[Phantom Coder]

If you want to know if it's present you search your hard drive for ildasm.exe. If it's not present you install the .NET Framework SDK.

Thank you all for the input, I really like this board people answer questions and help people hear, not like some of the other VB boards out there.


Thanks Again

Phantom Coder