How to access VB1 source saved in binary format?

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  • Killer42
    Recognized Expert Expert
    • Oct 2006
    • 8429

    How to access VB1 source saved in binary format?

    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
  • vb5prgrmr
    Recognized Expert Contributor
    • Oct 2009
    • 305

    #2
    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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    • Killer42
      Recognized Expert Expert
      • Oct 2006
      • 8429

      #3
      Originally posted 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
      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.

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