BleepingComputer.com: Microsoft Visual Basic Express Edition recovery

So I was working on a recent project and I was deleting a few files out of the resources and I guess I must have accidentally deleted 'Form1' however the "last successful build" has all my work precompiled in it. What I was wondering is if their is anyway recover this work so I don't have too start all over. I'm running short on time with this particular project.

So you're saying that you deleted your source code?

Yes, but its been compiled and is sitting in my debug folder as an .exe, anyway too reverse the process?

Couple things:

1. You can recover your source code with Reflector: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ . I happen to work for a company which makes extensive use of Reflector (except we spend our time breaking it). Reflector will work just fine even on release binaries.
2. Source code recovered with Reflector contains no comments, as it is a reconstruction of your code from the CIL it's compiled down to. Whitespace is likewise normalized.
3. You really should be using some form of Source Control, such as Subversion or Git, if you're doing serious programming work, to prevent these kinds of issues.

Hope that helps

Billy3

This post has been edited by Billy O'Neal: 06 January 2010 - 09:43 PM

I'm playing around with reflector now, Thank you for the refrence too the program, I'm starting too see some remnants from the program. However I'm not quite sure what I am looking for too find the code... Any ideas where I should be looking in particularly? I'm mostly seeing references too controls for the design form.

This post has been edited by xXAlphaXx: 06 January 2010 - 09:50 PM

Wow Billy you must be a good reverser for working in Pre-emptive

Nah -- I just do grunt work. Is to be expected when your title is "intern"

Billy3