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Extract DSR from Compiled VB Program 1

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Terabithia

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Aug 31, 2004
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I have developed a VB v6 program that I can add a Crystal Report to as a DSR. One such report I had a great deal of work into, compiled it into the VB application, and sent it out. My office was then burglarized and I lost everything. At the time this happened I was putting together a new computer and unfortuately had all of my recent backups in the office. Bad luck, and a hard lesson learned.

I have the VB application, is there a way to extract the DSR, or do I get to spend a lot of hours again re-developing the report?

I have seen several de-compilers, however so far I have not seen anything that would be less work than the re-development.

BTW, it took some time and work but I did chase down the burglar.
 
>I have seen several de-compilers

Don't be fooled. There are no genuine decompilers for VB5/6.
 
strongm,

That is actually comforting (security for my work), it sounds like I need to get to work on recreating the report again.

Thanks!
 
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