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As annouced previously, we just release the Free and Professional editions of VBReFormer 6.4. This new version improve such a lot the decompiler engine and this is one of the most important release I’ve done until now. The decompiler engine has been improved as it can now perform variable type determination. This means that VBReFormer […]

You all know that Visual Basic 6 allows you to choose between Native Code and P-Code compilation. Because one of the most recurrent questions of my customers was if VBReFormer Pro will support decompilation of their application, due to the simple fact they don’t know if it was compiled in Native or P-Code, I’ve made […]

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve released VBReFormer 6.2 Professional Edition. New features and improvements in this release include: – Support of Windows UNICODE settings & applications in disassembling, decompiling, and editing Visual Basic 5 & 6 applications ; – Exclusive support of +9000 others Win32 APIs (up to a total of 11 000 APIs) ; – Support […]

I’m very excited to have finally launched the new version of Decompiler-VB.Net website (V3.0) after a full year of development! Yes, I finally decided to communicate after a long period of development and testing. It’s all been completely re-coded from the ground up, and definitelly yes, the new website is officially up! Totally renovated and […]

I. Introduction This article has been written to provide a better and essential information to users of decompilers since I got many complaints from customers of others Visual Basic decompilers because their application weren’t recovered by these decompilers. The reason is, when you write a Visual Basic 6.0 application you may choose a P-Code or […]

I’m currently working on a client’s project on migrating an important management application initially developed in VB6 to C# by using decompilation since the client lost his source code. This is my first .Net related post. The application uses many external components, including the powerful Crystal Report component. While I was working on this new version I faced a […]

Now that VBReFormer is a well advanced decompiler for Visual Basic application, I was searching for some unsolved crackmes in order to made sample of decompiling for learning purpose. The website Crackmes.de contains an impressive number of crackmes applications, a perfect source of samples. For the first sample of CrackMe solving with VBReFormer Professional I […]

One of the most exiting feature of VBReFormer is design edition mode for binaries Visual Basic applications. I have done this webcast to show that we can easily edit and alter an executable written with Visual Basic 6 with help of my half-decompiler VBReFormer 2007 Professional Edition. For more information about VBReFormer: http://www.decompiler-vb.net/. [WEBCAST ERROR]  

I’m proud to announce the release and availability of VBReFormer Professional 5.4 (for licensed users). The updated version of VBReFormer can be downloaded from your client account! http://www.decompiler-vb.net/account.aspx What’s new in VBReFormer Professional 5.4 ? 1. The analysis engine for disassembling and decompiling has been modified to recover language structure information (in order to decompile […]

Hi there, I’m Sylvain Bruyere, and welcome to my blog. For those who don’t know who I am, in two words: I’m the author of VBReFormer, freelance developer focused on Microsoft development technologies in which I have a fair amount of experience, but that isn’t the whole story. I also have experience in security research, and […]