How to view VB code in Visual Studio 2005

[alexisb]

I am an Access programmer who is very proficient in VBA. I am trying to help someone out with a VB application they have and I am very confused. I hope someone can just point me in the right direction. I have reviewed many forums here at Tek-tips and on the internet and there is so much information that I don't know where to start.

This application has an Access backend but the screens are all VB. I am not sure but I think VB6 was used. I have the source code and the database.

How can I view this code? I ordered a trial version of Visual Studio 2005. When I open the project, which is an .exe file, I see the database tables. But when I open the source code .frm files, I see the VB code in a top-down screen, as I would in the VBA modules in Access. I expected to see a GUI interface with buttons, etc. like I do in Access. I used VB6 many years ago and I know it didn’t look like this top-down code.

I would appreciate any info as to where to look to see the source code and be able to run the screens against the database.

Thanks so much.
Alexis

 

[johnwm]

As far as I know you will need a copy of VB6 to see the GUI interface. They are still available, although you may have to buy VB.NET and downgrade to VB6.

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[dglienna]

The .frm files are text files that you can open in Notepad.

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[alexisb]

Thanks for your replies. I will look into getting a lower version of VB. Notepad does the same thing as Visual Studio - I see the code in top-down fashion, not GUI.
Alexis