Retrieving Source Code from MDE file

[dpimental]

Is there anyway to retrieve the source code from an mde file if you lost the original source file?

David Pimental
(US, Oh)
dpimental@checkfree.com

 

[RickSpr]

You can't retrieve it, because it isn't there. The source code is deleted in the process of creating the MDE file.

There have been questions about reverse-compiling the compiled code back to VBA source code, but it appears that nobody has succeeded in doing it.

I'm afraid you're out of luck.

Rick Sprague
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[Hap007]

Dear David,

Nope, no way, nada, can't do.

When you (or whomever) created the mde, part of the step is for access to create a new file and compiles all the code to psuedo code. Thus, there is no source code to recover. That is one of the reasons why an access mde is smaller than the same mdb that was used to create it.

What you can recover is tables, queries, macros and possibly toobars.

So Sorry, Good Luck,
Hap...

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