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Visual Basic Scouting Problem

i have a problem with making a scouting program. Our team already has one made and i just want to open it and modify it for this years game. Whenever i try and open the excectuable it doesnt work. It always states the .exe files name and says cannot be loaded. I realize that i need to open a project instead but i cannot find any project files for that part of the program? any suggestions? Does any one have a cool program they could let me look at or try? Thanks a lot
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

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i have a problem with making a scouting program. Our team already has one made and i just want to open it and modify it for this years game. Whenever i try and open the excectuable it doesnt work. It always states the .exe files name and says cannot be loaded. I realize that i need to open a project instead but i cannot find any project files for that part of the program? any suggestions? Does any one have a cool program they could let me look at or try? Thanks a lot
I am a fluent VB6 programmer, so I would be happy to help.

Does it say in the box that it pops up that it's a runtime error? If it is, there is nothing I can do for you without the VBP project file.

Does it say something about a missing .DLL file? If it does, go to

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

and download the run-time library installer, run it, and try again.

If you could, please either post the exact message in its exact wording, or take a screen shot of it (PrintScreen button, paste the contents of the Clipboard into Paint or something). This would help in figuring out where the error is.

Thanks.
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

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i have a problem with making a scouting program. Our team already has one made and i just want to open it and modify it for this years game. Whenever i try and open the excectuable it doesnt work. It always states the .exe files name and says cannot be loaded. I realize that i need to open a project instead but i cannot find any project files for that part of the program? any suggestions? Does any one have a cool program they could let me look at or try? Thanks a lot
You're absolutely right about your problem. You're trying to open the executable to edit. You cannot do this, you need to find the original project files to open.

It is possible that you could find a visual basic decompiler to use, but I have no idea where you would find that or how well it would work.
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

I didn't realize fully what you were asking.

I cannot vouch for how well this might work, but I found a VB6 decompiler that many rate pretty highly:

http://www.topshareware.com/PE-Tools-download-6191.htm

It's called PE Tools. I can't try it now 'cuz VB is on my home comp and I'm at my sponsor company, Magna Donnelly right now, but you try it out, see if it works, and get back to me if it fullfills your requirements.

Good luck.
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

Depending on how its done, its probably harder then you think to modify it for this years game. Just a thing to think about, you may want to find the person who developed it to start with, and ask for the code.
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

is there any way i can just run the executable with out a project file? and will that decompiler work with VB5.0???
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is there any way i can just run the executable with out a project file?
Yeah, just double-click on the executable, don't bother opening it with anything.
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and will that decompiler work with VB5.0???
As I said before, I don't know about that decompiler, but I saw that people were rating it highly online. I still haven't had a chance to try it out...
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Re: Visual Basic Scouting Problem

just double clicking on it doesnt do any thing either.... it still states the file name and just says cannot be loaded.
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