Extract VB.NET code from exe file

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naaoumii picture naaoumii · Jun 16, 2009 · Viewed 36.8k times · Source

I made a program using VB and I lost the source code but I have the exe file. How can I extract the code from the exe file?

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Jakob Christensen picture Jakob Christensen · Jun 16, 2009

Assuming your exe is a .NET assembly (you tagged the question as VB.NET), you can reverse engineer your exe using tools such as Reflector.

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