help of visual basic form

[robi_thakur]

i need a tool which can view .frm .frx file,i can not open frm file via vb6,i want to recover form coding atleast.please help me how i solve this

[Bonnie West]

Since FRM files are just plain ASCII text files, you can open them in any suitable text editor (such as Notepad). You can extract binary data from FRX files using any of these codes from PSC. There are most likely other FRX viewers/extractors elsewhere; just search for them.

[techgnome]

you can't open the frx file as it is binary (icons, pictures, etc)... but you can drag the frm file into notepad and open it that way... which brings up the question: why can't you open it in VB6?

-tg

[robi_thakur]

bro,form is corrupted by sudden pc shut down,i opened .frm via notepad,its blank although it shows 86kb,i think u understand how much code written there,i need code of that form atleast,many days ago i saw a tool which can read project file as like vb6.exe but i can not find that in google search now and i m so upset about it

[Bonnie West]

From Form File Loading Errors:

When Visual Basic loads a form into memory, it first converts the form to binary format. When you make changes to the form and save the changes, Visual Basic rewrites the file in ASCII format.

When VB saves a FRM file, it first fills it with spaces before writing the actual code. I'm afraid VB never got the chance to completely save your FRM file when your PC shut down. In that case, unless you had a backup somewhere, your code is gone forever. File recovery tools won't help much because all they'll see are the blank spaces.

This also happened to me before several times already. Now, I always make a backup of all the project files under a "BAK" subdirectory whenever I save the project prior to running in the IDE. In addition to that, I also embed the whole project as resources in the compiled exe for redundancy.

[Bonnie West]

... many days ago i saw a tool which can read project file as like vb6.exe but i can not find that in google search now ...

Try:

Visual Basic Decompilers

VB Decompiler

VBReFormer

[Doogle]

In addition to that, I also embed the whole project as resources in the compiled exe for redundancy.

That's nifty, Bonnie. As everything I write is for me, I think I might start doing that as well.

[ladoo]

try a system restore

[Nightwalker83]

try a system restore

Unfortunate, a system restore does not affect user saved files such as documents, pictures, frm, bas etc.

[ladoo]

Unfortunate, a system restore does not affect user saved files such as documents, pictures, frm, bas etc.

if the person dont have no choice what other recommendation u can provide ?

it worked for me i have a project size of 10 mb and it got currupted only way was system restore

by the way whats with rep thing lol

[Nightwalker83]

it worked for me i have a project size of 10 mb and it got currupted only way was system restore

Well, the fact that System Restore worked for you means it was a system problem.

As soon as you open SR you see a message stating

System Restore does not affect any of your documents, pictures, or other personal data.

Edit:

I think you mean Backup and Restore which, is a different program found under "System and Security" in the Windows 7 Control Panel.