.bin files

[Paul]

Hello All,

i've been learning as i go with a vb.net application my predicessor wrote
and i've come a a place where the code gets information from a .bin file. i
need to see what is in this file. what program would i use to make them and
what extension would it's source code have? i hope this is the right forum,
since it's involved witha vb.net program.

note: it is quite possible that this file is the remnant of a very
antiquated way of doing things. this program was origionally written from a
much older version of vb and imported to newer version over and over and over
(i think origionally it ran on an abacus)

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Paul" <Pa**@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

i've been learning as i go with a vb.net application my predicessor wrote
and i've come a a place where the code gets information from a .bin file.
i
need to see what is in this file. what program would i use to make them
and
what extension would it's source code have? i hope this is the right
forum,
since it's involved witha vb.net program.

BIN is a very common extension. It only indicates that a file contains
binary data opposed to a text file. You may want to look if there's
somewhere a specification of the file format in the project's documentation.

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