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What does VB decompiler do in Visual Basic?
VB Decompiler is an advanced tool that can decompile programs (EXE, DLL, or OCX) written in Visual Basic 5.0/6.0 and disassemble programs based on .NET technology.
Can a.netassembly be compiled to Visual Basic?
As you know, programs written in Visual Basic can be compiled to interpreted p-code or to native code, and a .NETassembly is always compiled to Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL). Since p-code consists of high-level commands, most code can be decompiled to source (without the names of variables and some functions).
How to explore your VB6 code like in a visual?
Now you only need to open the visual view of any form, click any control, and double-click the “_Event” field in the object’s properties list. If you do that, a context menu will open, with the entire list of handled events of the selected control. Select an event, and you will instantly switch to the handler code.
When to notice the speed up effect of VB6?
You can easily notice the speed-up effect when analyzing a project with many modules, each of which contains hundreds of functions.
What can I do with VB 6.0 decompiler?
VB6 compiles to machine code, so all you would be able to do is disassemble it. There are some tools that claim to parse and translate the machine code, but I have never tried those. Vb 6 compiles to native EXE files, not P-Code. Therefore you’ll be hacking ASM.
Can a VB decompiler restore the original source code?
VB Decompiler can restore the source code from p-codeas close to the original one as possible, so after a few modifications you can get some really workable source code. Of course, in case of a program compiled to native code, the decompilation success rate will be lower, but you still can recover up to 70 percent of the original source code.
Why is VB decompiler not used in fast mode?
VB Decompiler is unaware of the program’s other private functions called in the code and implies that all the parameters in the stack are passed in that call. To make sure that the decompilation quality is good even in the fast mode, we added a pre-analyzer of private functions.
As you know, programs written in Visual Basic can be compiled to interpreted p-code or to native code, and a .NETassembly is always compiled to Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL). Since p-code consists of high-level commands, most code can be decompiled to source (without the names of variables and some functions).