Getting back my code

[james007lamb]

I have recently had a dramatic failure in my computer and lost the visual basic code that i had for an application. However i had made copies of the setup for my application onto disc (from the package and development wizard). Is it possible some how to obtain my code from the setup, or do i have no hope???

Please help if you can!!!

[filburt1]

Not unless you feel like h4x0ring assembly, then there's no hope. VB3 and below apps can be decompiled to VB, VB4 to VB5 can be barely decompiled to VB (virtually impossible), and there's nearly no hope for VB6.

[james007lamb]

I am pretty desperate - i feel like trying h4x0ring assembly.
But i need to know what that is and how i go about doing it! Thi is my final year project and graduation is at stake!!!

[filburt1]

Assembly is the lowest-level language you can write. You'd have to be extremely desperate to try to read the code, I mean like if your life was at stake. If you have Visual C++, you can debug the program while it's running as an EXE (outside the IDE) and view the assembly code.

[Arc]

Does you setup package enclude the VBP and form files or does it only contain the EXE? IF it's only the exe then forget it and start over

[MerrionComputin]

Post the exe and I'll see if anything can be recovered. You can get back some of the code - the forms and controls etc. by running the exe with a wh_cbt hook and watching window creation etc. but it does not get back the business logic underlying the controls...

[mendhak]

Have you tried data recovery software? If you're DESPERATE, you could pay for one of those.

[khalik]

recently i too lost my source code but luckly have backup of it

i think we have some software which can actually get the deleted files "deleted from recycle bin"

do any one know about it..
any download sites to try out

thanks in advance

[mendhak]

I did a search and found a few links. Relevant or not.

http://www.ontrack.com/
http://www.getdataback.com/
http://www.recallusa.com/
http://www.datarecoverysoftware.com/
http://www.runtime.org

no wait... click here and you'll get some sponsored links on the right hand side

here

[khalik]

thanks mendhak