any way to convert

[WarStoke]

from vb.net 2k5 baaaack to vb 6 with out recoding the whole application

[WarStoke]

sigh i was really hopeing there was a way
because i really dont want to have to redo my program
the problem im having is that there are no linkers for .net
so people have to have the .net framework
and that adds and extra 22mb on the download
if anyone knows of a linker thats free then ooya let me know
ive allready looked into xenocode but it dosnt work quite as advertised
it made a 80k executable increase to 22mb trying to link it with the .net frame work for native execution
and thier obfuscator kills my applications if i dont embed the .net into it

oh and also ive looked at a lot of .net shareware apps and i do think some people should learn to use some form of obfuscation or else yer code is gonna get jacked

[Courageous]

*shrug*

Decompiling isn't against the law; redistributing is. One can even decompile and modify various programs in so far as one doesn't redistribute them.

C//

[Courageous]

It's perfectly ethical to decompile a program. What happens next is where the ethical and legal questions begin. If one wants to decompile a program to learn what it does, that's perfectly ethical. If one wants to decompile it just to change it for one's own use, that's ethical too. Of course, probably most decompiling is for some unethical purpose. But not all. For example, there are things around I've decompiled personally. Once in an attempt to diagnose a bug. No biggie, really.

C//

[Courageous]

Of course you're right. Stealing code is unethical and illegal. You shouldn't, however, really jump to assumptions as to what someone is doing with a decompilation (which is both legal and ethical by itself). Say, for example, someone wanted to add features to the Krrios client, by making a version, just for their own use: legal, ethical, maybe even fun.

C//

[arul]

I decompiled almost every MSIL program, because it's easy to do and I am curios, I didn't do it for code at all.
I don't mind if someone would decompile my Log Reader, actually, I'd feel proud because he wanted to learn something new from what I did.

[JimJava]

Is a pandoras Box type App crossing the line Becouse thats kinda what im working on.

[WarStoke]

well im not stealing peoples code or anything lol im not good enough
but i noticed that severel apps are not obfuscated any thing i release is going to have some obfuscation just because i hate how much of stuff i wrote back in highschool would get stolen.

[XxSP1DERxX]

Unless I am mistaken, obfuscation degrades the performance of the program. Also in terms of .NET, salamander can remove obfuscation while decompiling. Therefore there is no real need.

What you would have to do is something that sallos did, and that is to store the code in an encoded format inside of another data file. You would be 'hiding' the program and executing it with a loader.