home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.lang.visual.basic      MS Visual Basic discussions, NOT dot-net      10,840 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 9,956 of 10,840   
   qwert to All   
   Visual Basic reversed engineering   
   13 Mar 06 08:05:56   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.lang.visualbasic   
   From: nospam@nospam.nl   
      
   Hello,   
      
   I have an application (.exe) build in Visual Basic 6. The code (and   
   programmer) are gone. The program doesn't work because it looks for a ms   
   access file (.mdb) in an unknown directory. I need to figure out which   
   directory this is. Is there anyway to do this? The direcory is probably   
   hard-coded in the .exe, so could it be still in there as a string? Open the   
   .exe with some tool and look for strings? Or is there a way to step through   
   a running vb application?   
      
   This probably isn't a vb6 question, but that is what I work with and that is   
   what this application is build with and I have no idea how to accomplish   
   such a task, or if it's even possible. So any help would great,   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca