VB DECOMPILER?

[Skizzarz]

i've looked on the net forever but no use, is there a god dang VB decompiler out there?

[Skizzarz]

um... can anyone plz answer my question....please....lol, just say i dont know, at least i would feel *reasured*

[Tony]

i don't think there is a VB decompiler... my guess would be something about it being wrong to reverse engineer programs and seeing as M$ is behind VB, it just adds to it...

but I'm not sure

[Skizzarz]

ok thank you, oh i have a question, why do u ALWAYS say M$ instead of MS?

[McKenzie]

Decompiling is messy to start with. Even C decompilers end up giving you code that is very hard to read (variables like a, b, c...) The decompiler has no idea what the original programer had in mind, and you can forget about any comments. The further away from the machine the language is the harder it is to decompile properly. VB is very far from machine language, so even if there was a decompiler out there the code would probably be a mess (hey, but who knows for sure)

[santabruzer]

There is a Decompiler for VB 3 i think.. or there used to be.. somewhere.. but anything above 4 i think doesn't have one.. or is not supposed to have one

"Let's make one in Turing!"

[Tony]

$ in M$ represents their monopoly Just something I picked up from dan I suppose

as for the decompiler - McKenzie is right. It would just result in a bunch of almost random code for all the activeX components more if programmer included other packages

[Skizzarz]

ahh, monopoly, i didnt know there was a microsoft version of monopoly (it must be cool), jk jk im not stupid. and ya, i knew theres and old decompiler but it wont work on new ones, i read that on the net

[Homer_simpson]

well actually the game's called monopoly tycoon... it's actually kinda nice... i played it alot over weekend with friends(3d outlook game)... we'd bet on money and who ever won got he money

[Skizzarz]

lol ive played that before, uncle money bags rocks!