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How to access VB1 source saved in binary format?

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Hi all.

Haven't been on Bytes for a couple of years or something, but I've been searching the web and can't find an answer to this, so thought I'd come back to the experts. :)

I'm sorting through a lot of old junk, and have found a bunch of my old VB1 projects. The exe's don't run, which is no surprise. But the main problem is, I can't even read the code to find out what they do, as they're stored in binary format.

How can I read these old VB1 source files to extract the code? Some way to load them into VB6 would be ideal (that's right, I still haven't updated to VBnet) but even just some way to see what's there would help.

Hope someone can help with this.

Killer42
Jul 17 '10 #1

✓ answered by vb5prgrmr

You are going to have to install VB3, 2, or 1 to be able to read those files... You might get lucky if you try http://www.wotsit.org to check the file extensions to see if their format has been published/decoded...



Good Luck

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vb5prgrmr
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You are going to have to install VB3, 2, or 1 to be able to read those files... You might get lucky if you try http://www.wotsit.org to check the file extensions to see if their format has been published/decoded...



Good Luck
Jul 17 '10 #2
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
@vb5prgrmr
Thanks, I'll have a look.

Hm... always been a bit of a hoarder. Wonder whether I still have my old VB disks lying around somewhere.
Jul 17 '10 #3

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